William Penn

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

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

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.