It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
William PennIt is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
William PennFrugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn