Jonathan Swift — "The commonest things are the most useful."

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide what they fear to show."

"Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest."

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

"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."

"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…"