Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide Art. - Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.