Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

— Jonathan Swift

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

— Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

— Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

— Jonathan Swift

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

— Jonathan Swift

What some invent the rest enlarge.

— Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

— Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

— Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

— Jonathan Swift

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

— Jonathan Swift