Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Liberty is a product of order.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.