Jonathan Swift

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."

"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."