Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

We must be doing something to be happy.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.