I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby... - Laurence Sterne

Human nature is the same in all professions.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

— This is vile work. — For which reason, from the beginning of this, you see, I have constructed the main work and the adventitious parts of it with such intersections, and have so complicated and involved the digressive and progressive movements, one wheel within another, that the whole machine, in general, has been kept a-going; — and, what’s more, it shall be kept a-going these forty years, if it pleases the fountain of health to bless me so long with life and good spirits.