Quotations by Author

Jonathan Swift

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Books, the children of the brain.

Observation is an old man's memory.

We've got just enough religion to hate [each other], but not enough religion to love each other.