"Men of great parts are often unfortunate..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”

“A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.”

“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”

“probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.”

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”

“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.”

“The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

“Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.”