If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
William PennMan, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William PennMy prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William PennBetween a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William PennInquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
William PennTrue Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
William Penn