William Penn

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

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.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

With all the doubt, with every worry, with all the negativity that I mistook for honesty, it kept me blinded. Lying for so long, I fooled myself in believing it to be my reality. And living in that world, it was my reality. Like when the lights come on, or when the curtains are drawn back, the shock of the clarity, meant I had to adjust to the new world I was witnessing. An honest; good with the bad, world, that I can thrive and grow in.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.