Jonathan Swift

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Human nature will not flourish, any more than will a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a time, in the same worn-out soil."

"May you live every day of your life."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he must do the same."

"Criticism is the art of disliking things."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes, when looking upon his own importance."

"Anger is a short madness."

"The world is made up for the most part of fools and knaves."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"Most of mankind are the worshippers of Fortune, and not Virtue."

"Pride is said to be the last thing a man gets rid of; we may add that it is the first thing he puts on in the morning."

"A pair of lovers are never tired of being alone together."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Wisdom is not purchasable by gold."

"Lawyers are the storehouse of the law."

"Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

"The very minute a notion of duty enters the mind, it is already losing ground."

"Happiness is the perpetual exercise of virtue."

"We are only young once, but we can be immature forever."

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectually by the chasing after it than by anything else."

"A nice collection of weak-headed people may be made stronger by mutual support."

"Religion and government ought never to be suffered to play into each other's hands."

"Flattery is the food of fools."