(These epigrams were written by Swift around 1706)
We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign: that the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
The power of Fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Apollo was held the god of physick and sender of diseases. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.