That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan SwiftThe latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan SwiftI am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
Jonathan Swift