Jonathan Swift — "I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and n…"

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."

"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 impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."

"It is an old maxim, that a man is never happy till he dies."