Laurence Sterne

"A true friend is one who enters when the rest of the world has left."

"The soul of reading is in the mind of the reader."

"To know one's weakness is to know one's strength."

"A man's life is his legacy; he must write it carefully."

"In love, as in art, there is no accounting for taste."

"The world progresses not through great men, but through good men."

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."

"The truest of all truths is that love is supreme."

"Man is the only creature who laughs; and the only creature who ought to laugh."

"To be happy, one must learn to be content with less and grateful for more."

"The greatest battles are fought within the human heart."

"What we think, we become."

"The art of living well is the art of living simply."

"A man who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"The power of words lies not in their sound, but in their meaning."

"In every age, man must learn anew what it means to be human."

"The greatest inheritance is not wealth, but wisdom."

"To live without philosophy is to live without hope."

"A man's character is revealed not in moments of success, but in moments of failure."

"The world is full of those who have learned to live without knowing how to be happy."

"Justice is not the law; the law is but the servant of justice."

"To understand the heart, one must look beyond the actions to the intentions."

"The beauty of nature lies in its imperfection and constant change."

"A man can be educated without being learned; wise without being clever."

"The true freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the proper ordering of one's desires."

"In solitude, man finds his truest self."

"The purpose of art is to reveal what reality conceals."

"A man must be his own judge and his own executioner."

"The greatest of all arts is the art of living a good life."

"To be brave is not to be without fear, but to act in spite of it."