William Penn

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

The public must and will be served.

Eat therefore to live, and do not live to eat.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

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

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.