Daniel Defoe Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

It is never too late to be wise.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.