William Penn

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

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

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

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

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

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

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

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.