William Penn

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

We are wiser than we know.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.