Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.