So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
Jonathan SwiftThe preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
Jonathan SwiftReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Jonathan SwiftIt is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift