"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself."

"We are told that the Houyhnhnms have no vices, but those which are the product of their reason; and that the Yahoos have no virtues, but those which are the product of their instinct."

"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again."

"I have been for some years past, as I hope to be for some years to come, a constant visitor of the sick, and a constant observer of the dying."