• The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

    Jonathan Swift: The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
    Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202