Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
Jonathan SwiftFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
Jonathan SwiftWhatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.
Jonathan Swift