The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Jonathan SwiftThe latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan SwiftIt is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan SwiftI said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
Jonathan Swift