To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Jonathan SwiftWhen a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Jonathan SwiftVery few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan SwiftI can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
Jonathan Swift