When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan SwiftWhen a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Jonathan SwiftWho can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
Jonathan SwiftWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift