The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan SwiftThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Jonathan SwiftWhat they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan SwiftHe had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Jonathan Swift