Jonathan Swift — "The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitte…"

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"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."

"The want of proper food in this kingdom is a topic so trite, that few people care to talk of it, for fear of being thought to have nothing new to say."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."

"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…"