William Penn

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

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

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

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.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.