Jonathan Swift1667–1745We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)- Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5In context
- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)
Violent zeal for truth hath an hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.
Thoughts on Religion- A Tale of a Tub (1704), Dedication
- Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
