William Penn

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

The way to do well is to do well.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.