If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
May you live every day of your life.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
How vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope;...
My master likewise mentioned another Quality which his Servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable. He said, a Fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo, to retire into a C...
I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Hea...
There was all the world and his wife.
Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
A crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with ki...
Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life that the author was in...
My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern,
I said, 'there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid....
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, w...
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.