Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
William PennDeath then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
William PennThe usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
William PennAbove all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
William PennIf thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
William PennThe secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William PennHe that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
William PennLet us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
William PennAll excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn