It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
William PennIt is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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 PennGod sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
William Penn