Jonathan Swift

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"God grant that women may have levelled ground to come into line with mankind in the matter of power and wages."

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

"Great men have great faults."

"Health is the second blessing that we mortals are allowed."

"Hope against hope means to go on hoping when all grounds for hope are gone."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Knowledge is power."

"Liberty is knowing the truth, and the truth is setting you free."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"Mere cohabitation is not marriage."

"Money is the sinews of business and battle."

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Obstacles are the price you pay for greatness."

"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 true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

"Ambition is a great man's madness."

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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

"There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."

"The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman."

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

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it."

"The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance."