William Penn

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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

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

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

For we put the power in the people.

Blows are sarcasm’s turned stupid.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Remember who you are.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.