"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."

"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion."

"I am convinced that if all who are of the same opinion were to meet, the place of meeting would not be large enough to contain them."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"The greatest inventions were at first but the objects of ridicule."