Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift

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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift

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one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift

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There is nothing in this World constant but inconstancy, yet Plato thought that if virtue would appear to the world in her own native dress, all men would be enamoured with her.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.
~ Jonathan Swift

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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.
~ Jonathan Swift

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