William Penn

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

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.

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.