Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.