William Penn

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.