The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof Ihope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am notunderstood, it shall be concluded that something very usef...
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It
Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his Breast.Imitate him if you dare,
So Geographers in Afric-mapsWith Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
He said, my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were...
Ever eating, never cloying,All-devouring, all-destroying
As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour....
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.