Jonathan Swift — "Gold defiles with frequent touch; There's nothing fouls the hand so much."

"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."

"I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever has been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice a…"

"It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."