This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Perverseness is your whole defence.