"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"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."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"There are few things more to be lamented than that a man who has got an estate, makes not a better use of it for the good of his family, and to the advantage of the public."

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."