"Nature has left every man a capacity..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.”

“Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”

“Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.”

“It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.”

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

“...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.”

“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.”

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”

“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”