William Penn

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.  

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.  

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

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.  

If men be good, government cannot be bad.  

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.  

I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.  

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.  

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.  

(advice to his children)
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.  

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

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.  

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.  

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.
For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.  

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

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.  

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.  

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.  

If we would mend the World,
we should mend Ourselves;
and teach our Children to be,
not what we are,
but what they should be.  

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.