William Penn

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

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

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away.

We need much less than we think we need.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.