William Penn

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.

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

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.