01c. 1681 ADThe secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.William Penn / quote ↗
02c. 1681 ADA wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.William Penn / quote ↗
03c. 1681 ADI expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.William Penn / quote ↗
05c. 1681 ADMan 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 Penn / quote ↗
08c. 1681 ADNot to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.William Penn / quote ↗
09c. 1681 ADThe smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.William Penn / quote ↗
12c. 1681 ADFor death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.William Penn / quote ↗
14c. 1681 ADHumility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.William Penn / quote ↗
16c. 1681 ADTrue silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn / quote ↗
17c. 1681 ADIn 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.William Penn / quote ↗
19c. 1681 ADThe jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.William Penn / quote ↗
20c. 1681 ADA true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.William Penn / quote ↗
21c. 1681 ADHe 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.William Penn / quote ↗
