William Penn

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

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.