William Penn

Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.

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

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Let us try what love will do.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.