“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”
“Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.”
“Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.”
“Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?”
“No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]”
“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?”
“There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.”
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