Daniel Defoe

"The greatest good is the greatest number."

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

"Fear is the greatest obstacle to progress."

"Knowledge is power."

"The true measure of a man is not in how he treats the powerful, but in how he treats the powerless."

"Being in poverty is not shameful, but being idle is."

"Cowards dream of dangers and wake in a fright."

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Money is not happiness, but the want of money is misery."

"Hope is the greatest thing that can sustain us."

"A man may be said to attain a very competent knowledge of a language when he understands the words of it."

"The great secret of having much is having little to want."

"Fiction should never attempt to ape truth."

"Walking is the best of all medicines."

"A true sailor can navigate by the stars alone."

"Time flies on feathered wings of passion."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the short cut to everything."

"True freedom is not the ability to do whatever you wish, but the wisdom to wish only what is right."

"A faithful friend is worth his weight in gold."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Business to the last is the great concern of life."

"A man's real wealth is the good he does in the world."

"Patience will achieve more with time than force will achieve with haste."

"To take up arms against a sea of troubles is noble indeed."

"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."

"Nature is the art of God."

"Dreams are the substance of our waking life."