William Penn

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

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

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.