William Penn

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

We are free to yield to truth.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Events tend to recur in cycles…

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.