William Penn

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we’ll Hear; what we Love, we’ll Trust; and what we Love, we’ll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he’ll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he’ll send us the Comforter; then whatsoever we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

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.

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

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge