The desire of life and health is implanted in man’s nature; — the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it: - Laurence Sterne

I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.

"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?"

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;