And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about? — Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord, — quite an irregular thing! - Laurence Sterne

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Pray my Dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the clock? — Good G — ! cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — — Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? — — — — Nothing.

— So much motion, continues he, (for he was very corpulent) — is so much unquietness; and so much of rest, by the same analogy, is so much of heaven.
Now, I (being very thin) think differently; and that so much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy — and that to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil —