William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

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

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

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Every artist was first an amateur.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…