Quotes from Robinson Crusoe

It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore.

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen.

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

It is never too late to be wise.

I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery. But I am alive; and not drowned, as all my ship's company were.

I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of: there were no rivals; I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me.

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted.

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

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

Never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me: without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and engaged; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father.

Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

As reason is the substance and origin of the mathematics, so by stating and squaring everything by reason, and by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be, in time, master of every mechanic art.