The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan SwiftThe lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan SwiftThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan SwiftO 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.
Jonathan Swift