William Penn

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All that appears is devoid of independent existence, just like a magical apparition or a dream.

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

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

In charity there is no excess.