William Penn

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

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

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

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

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

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

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.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

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

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