"Small causes are sufficient to make a..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”

“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”

“This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;Shall still be kept with Joy by me:This Day then, let us not be told,That you are sick, and I grown old”

“What is fear of need but need itself?”

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”

“Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.”

“I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.”

“You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.”

“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”