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

A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.