All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

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 Quote

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
- Daniel Defoe Quote

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

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
- Daniel Defoe Quote