Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime,...
gentleman peers rakes
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
law devil easy
[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
party ignorance men
Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.
beer design trying
I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
husband unhappy fool
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
men evil design
No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
sleep dark wickedness
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.
mean adversity prosperity
Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
life men strange
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
adventure men hands
It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.
marriage husband too-late
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
lying philosophy judging
Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
womb wit
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
members feds wit
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.