Jonathan Swift — "Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r…"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

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

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