William Penn

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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.

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

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

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

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.