William Penn

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.

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

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

The way to do well is to do well.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.