William Penn

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Logic is like the sword

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.