I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Jonathan Swift Read Quote
