Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption (tuberculosis).See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence...
It is said in Aristotle’s Master Piece, ‘That when a man doth think of any thing which is past — he looketh down upon the ground; — but that when he thinketh of something that is to come, he looketh up towards the heavens.’