Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

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.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.