Jonathan Swift — "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you d…"

"For we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician, that health is the most valuable of all possessions; and that it is to be acquired by eating, and by drinking, and by sleeping, and by e…"

"What they do in the north, they do not in the south."

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

"But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal, which, as it is wholl…"

"The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking."