A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
Jonathan SwiftNeither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
Jonathan SwiftThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Jonathan Swift