It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
Jonathan SwiftI forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
Jonathan SwiftHad Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
Jonathan SwiftReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan Swift