Quotes by : Daniel Defoe

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized....

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles....

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

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has....

...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind,....

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind;....

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and....

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us....

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time,....

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding....