William Penn

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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

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.

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.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.