William Penn

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

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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.

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

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.