William Penn

Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another’s air with another’s breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

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

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Always play like an underdog.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.