Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – 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
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