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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE, Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
- Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
- That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE, The Kentish Petition
For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.
DANIEL DEFOE, The Education of Women
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.
DANIEL DEFOE, The Education of Women
- The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
- The good die early, and the bad die late.
DANIEL DEFOE, Character of the late Dr. S. Annesley
- Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
- The Devil always builds a chapel there;
- And 'twill be found, upon examination,
- The latter has the largest congregation.
DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
- And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
- Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
DANIEL DEFOE, Shortest Way with Dissenters
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