Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. – Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift
The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders