William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

What you possess, you lose.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

Our God is a forgiving God.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.