Jonathan Swift
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
(topic: ambition)
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
(topic: genius)
- The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
(topic: luck)
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
(topic: perception)
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
(topic: religion)
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