Jonathan Swift — "Books, the children of the brain."

"Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman."

"Although avarice is the most sordid of all vices, yet it is the least scandalous."

"It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed b…"

"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."