William Penn

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

To delay justice, is injustice.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.