Every man desires tolive long; but no man would be old.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
Fortune and Chance
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
Genius and Talent
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
Humor and Wit
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.Jonathan Swift: The Battle of the Books
Praise and Flattery
'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Jonathan Swift
Religion
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
Shame
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
Style
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.Jonathan Swift
Vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects
