Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. - Laurence Sterne

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

«Vivo en un continuo esfuerzo para guardarme, por medio de la alegría, de los achaques de una salud precaria y otros males de la vida: firmemente persuadido de que cada vez que un hombre sonríe, pero mucho más cuando se ríe, se le añade algo a este Fragmento de Vida».

Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to Nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart!