Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. – Daniel Defoe
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon. – John Aubrey