3 December 2020 William Penn 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.
3 December 2020 William Penn 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.
3 December 2020 William Penn The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
3 December 2020 William Penn True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
3 December 2020 William Penn Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
3 December 2020 William Penn Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
3 December 2020 William Penn A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
3 December 2020 William Penn Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
3 December 2020 William Penn Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
