William Penn quotes
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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