William Penn

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

What is once well done is done forever.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.