William Penn

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.