William Penn

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Live, let live, and help live

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.