Jonathan Swift — "The difference between a madman and a sane man is that the madman is in a minori…"

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."

"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."

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