William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”

“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”

“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”

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

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”

“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”