William Penn

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

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

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

The public must and will be served.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

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

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.