Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
Jonathan SwiftWhat they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan SwiftThe reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan SwiftGreat abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
Jonathan Swift