William Penn

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

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

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

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.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.