Daniel Defoe II

It is never too late to be wise.

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

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Today we love what tomorrow we hate,
today we seek what tomorrow we shun,
today we desire what tomorrow we fear,
nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other mens's opinions.