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.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.