Jonathan Swift — "The commonest things are the most useful; which shows the wisdom of God, who has…"

"That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

"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."

"I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and not by the caprice of a monarch."

"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense."