For Englishmen are ne'er contented long. - 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. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence; while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.

No panegyric needs their praise record;
An Englishman ne'er wants his own good word.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate;
The good die early, and the bad die late.