O how I envied him his feelings! - Laurence Sterne

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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

Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read- or by the knowledge of the great saint Paraleipomenon- I tell you before-hand, you had better throw down the book at once; for without much reading, by which your reverence knows I mean much knowledge, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motley emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one.