I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. – Jonathan Swift
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. – Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift