William Penn

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.