William Penn

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

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And those also would follow with more Judgment, and less Trouble and Time.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.