Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
William PennWe are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William PennThere can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
William Penn