William Penn

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Let us try what love will do.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

She was taken by surprise at quite how breathtaking the twinkle in her eyes was. She listened and watched attentively, magnetized. As butterflies danced on her lips, her own stomach felt butterflies.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?