William Penn

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

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

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.