"[If I] should sometimes put on a fool's cap with a bell to it, for a moment or two as we pass along,--don't fly off,--but rather courteously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside;--and as we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short, do any thing,-----only keep your temper," (L. Sterne)
"Life is a gift horse in my opinion"
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see… so that if we drop our subject or the subjective from our senses, all qualities, all relations of objects in space and time, nay space and time themselves, would vanish
