in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Outrageous party-writers are like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories.
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Aphorisms by Jonathan Swift
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of a style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
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As I take it, the two principal branches of preaching are, to tell the people what is their duty, and then to convince them that it is so: the topics for both are brought from Scripture and reason.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The smallest accident intervening often produces such changes that a wise man is just as much in doubt of events as the most ignorant and unexperienced.
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The English tongue if refined to a certain standard might perhaps be fixed forever.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If the learned would not sometimes submit to the ignorant, the old to the weaknesses of the young, there would be nothing but everlasting variance in the world.
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He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
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It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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