William Penn

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

To delay justice, is injustice.

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

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

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

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Nothing is black or white.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.