William Penn

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

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.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.