“Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.”

“Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to—you'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself—no love, no kindness, no respect!”

“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–”

“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”

“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.”

“Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight”