Daniel Defoe

All men would be tyrants if they could.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.