Jonathan Swift — "I am not fond of giving advice, but when I do, I expect it to be taken."

"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…"

"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."

"We are told that the Houyhnhnms have no vices, but those which are the product of their reason; and that the Yahoos have no virtues, but those which are the product of their instinct."

"I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it …"

"I am not fond of arguments, because they are generally productive of more heat than light."