William Penn

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

I don’t do quagmires.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.