William Penn

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

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

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

All colors will agree in the dark.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.