William Penn

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.