"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

Government is a necessary evil

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve