That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
William PennIf thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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 PennThe usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
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