Jonathan Swift — "Argument is the worst enemy of truth."

"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."

"The want of proper food in this kingdom is a topic so trite, that few people care to talk of it, for fear of being thought to have nothing new to say."

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."

"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."