William Penn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.