William Penn

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.