"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"I have been for some years past, working upon a great work, which I intend to publish, and it is a complete refutation of all that hath ever been written upon the subject of government."

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"We are told that the Houyhnhnms have no vices, but those which are the product of their reason; and that the Yahoos have no virtues, but those which are the product of their instinct."