Daniel Defoe

"Dreams without action are merely fantasies."

"The value of a man lies not in his words, but in his deeds."

"Nature is the greatest teacher of all."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."

"Legacy is what we leave behind."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand."

"Every person is the architect of their own fortune."

"The best of men cannot suspend their fate; the good die early, and the bad die late."

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

"All evil comes from man's misuse of his freedom."

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

"Fear is the passion which is strongest in the human breast."

"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."

"Covetousness is a sin forbidden so strictly in the word of God that He has ranked it with murder and theft."

"Commerce is the grand engine of our prosperity."

"The greatest good we can do for ourselves is to do good to others."

"Solitude is as needful to the mind as diet and exercise to the body."

"Being bred in a crowd makes me naturally love solitude."

"One of the greatest comforts of this life is friendship."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him; therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"Providence hides itself in the details."

"We cannot know what we have never been taught."

"Fear teaches a man the measure of his necessity."

"The best way to hear God's voice is in the silence of your own heart."

"Honesty is the best policy, though it is not the best revenue."

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

"To be able to write well is as rare as to be able to fight well."

"The greatest monster in the world is want."

"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem."

"Nature teaches us more than reason."