William Penn

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

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

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. 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.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Virtue is too often merely local.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.