The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan SwiftWhen a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan SwiftIf they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.
Jonathan Swift