William Penn

Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Always play like an underdog.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Be an opener of doors.

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.