William Penn

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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

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

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.