Jonathan Swift — "The two great masters of the world are reason and passion."

"The greatest ornament of an eminent character is humility."

"I could wish that some of our young divines would not think it beneath them to consult the most celebrated plays and romances, as well as the most approved poets and orators."

"We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest."

"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"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."