William Penn

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.