William Penn

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.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Let us try what love will do.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.