William Penn

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

The public must and will be served.

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.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

The surest poison is time.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.