Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
Jonathan SwiftThe latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan SwiftThe sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
Jonathan SwiftThere seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
Jonathan Swift