William Penn

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now."

"Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those thatare full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings haveneed of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather."

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

"Time is what we want most,but what we use worst."

"In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest."