William Penn

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

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

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”

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

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

“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”

“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.”