Daniel Defoe

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.