Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift
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. – Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift