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| Daniel Defoe
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. Actions receive their tincture from the times, and as they change are virtues made of crimes. All good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
All men would be tyrants if they could. And as they change are virtues made of crimes. And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who!
And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable
to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed
a cat.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. Blood follows blood.
Cromarty Firth, noted for being the finest Harbour, with the
least Business, of perhaps any in Britain.
Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.
From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. Great families of yesterday we show, and lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. He that is rich is wise. I hear much of people’s calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent. I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. My man FridayMy man Friday My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. Pride the first peer and president of hell. The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. These are the mountebanks of state, . . .
The mastiffs of a government,
To worry and run down the innocent.We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake. 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. Whenever 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. Which does not from some foreigner derive. Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English. |
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