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. ”