We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William PennI expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
William PennTrue godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William PennAnd he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
William PennDeath is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. 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.
William Penn