William Penn

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.