William Penn

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

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

For we put the power in the people.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.