Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - imađahu jedan mudar zajednički običaj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvapu… - Laurence Sterne

If Nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece,—must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?—Whip me such stoics, great Governor of Nature! said I to myself:—wherever thy providence shall place me for the trials of my virtue;—whatever is my danger,—whatever is my situation,—let me feel the movements which rise out of it, and which belong to me as a man,—and, if I govern them as a good one, I will trust the issues to thy justice; for thou hast made us, and not we ourselves.

La seriedad es un continente misterioso del cuerpo que sirve para ocultar los defectos de la mente

The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me:
she look’d down — a silence of some moments followed.