He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

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.

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.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.