Daniel Defoe

"The greatest gift is the ability to give."

"A man is never entirely himself till he is working at his calling."

"The good of life is its variety."

"Change is the only constant in human affairs."

"The truest character of ignorance is vanity."

"A grateful heart is a sign of a noble soul."

"The world expects too much of man."

"In the end, we are all responsible for our own happiness."

"The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches, but to reveal theirs."

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

"Fear is the father of cruelty."

"Wonder is the first step toward knowledge."

"He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner."

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

"Custom makes all things easy."

"The best provision for old age is a well-spent youth."

"Money is the sinews of action."

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

"Knowledge without experience is mere theory."

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

"Business is the salt of life."

"Every moment of life brings new fortune."

"It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against any author, but to produce something better is a very laborious undertaking."

"Truth is such a thing as I believe no man has ever yet been sufficiently bold to define."

"Time is the measure of business."

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia."

"The greatest blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach, but we shut our eyes and see them not."

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength."

"A man may love a woman with all his heart and not be fit to marry her."