I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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.

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.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.