William Penn

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. 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.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.