"He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the…"

"Big-endians and small-endians."

"It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but…"

"It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their e…"

"They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they alleg…"

"Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; …"

"You have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country [England]; you have clearly proved that ignorance, idlenes…"

"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature eve…"

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot…"

"If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are s…"