"How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!" — Daniel Defoe

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Source: The Sign of the Four (1890)

Daniel Defoe Quote