Daniel Defoe

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.