Jonathan Swift — "And that this boasted lord of nature Is both a weak and erring creature."

"It is an old maxim, that a man is never happy till he dies."

"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."

"The two great masters of the world are reason and passion."

"There are few things more to be lamented than that a man who has got an estate, makes not a better use of it for the good of his family, and to the advantage of the public."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."