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
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. – Daniel Defoe
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. – Daniel Defoe
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
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. – 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. – Daniel Defoe
