Daniel Defoe Late Quotations

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

It is never too late to be wise.

This grieved me heartily ; and 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.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.