Jonathan Swift

"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."

"A hypocrite despises those he deceives."

"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."

"Youth is the first act in the play of life."

"No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train of reflection, whether we will or no."

"In free countries there are always a number of safe outlets for discontent."

"The value of a man is not determined by his abilities, but by his will to use them."

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

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few."

"Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"The world will never be long without some fellow who will plunge the world into war."

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to get it is nothing, to keep it is something, to spend it is everything."

"The greatest of all arts is the art of living together."

"I never saw so much wit and spirit wasted on trifles."

"Every fool his own physician."

"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he shall hit."

"Promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human conversation, are nothing but words."

"Misanthropy is not born of contempt but of disappointed love."

"There are some people whose presence is punishment."

"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention by the speaker to deceive."

"The art of appearing wise rests on knowledge and discretion."

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

"It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"The best of all physicians is a cheerful heart."

"Good counsel is the best capital."

"I have nothing to say to people who talk about the weather."

"Whoever loves himself cannot love any other person."

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle."