All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

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.