William Penn
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.Collection: Death
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.Collection: Art
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.Collection: Men
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.Collection: Law
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.Collection: Wisdom
Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.Collection: Strong
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.Collection: Leaving
Never chide with anger, but instruction.Collection: Instruction
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.Collection: Nature
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.Collection: Temptation
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.Collection: Love
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.Collection: Practice
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.Collection: Compassion
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.Collection: Comfort
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.Collection: Missing
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.Collection: Men
A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.Collection: Business
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.Collection: Excess
Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.Collection: Mind
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.Collection: Disputes
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.Collection: Business
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.Collection: Food
Perfect love casteth out fear.Collection: Bible
Be rather bountiful, than expensive.Collection: Expensive
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.Collection: Men
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.Collection: Art
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.Collection: Work
Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.Collection: Work
I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.Collection: People
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.Collection: Practice
Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?Collection: Desire
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.Collection: Pain
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.Collection: Suffering
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.Collection: Men
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.Collection: Christian
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.Collection: Truth
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.Collection: Men
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.Collection: Death
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.Collection: Men
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.Collection: Disease
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.Collection: Sympathy
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.Collection: Lying
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.Collection: Educational
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.Collection: Silence
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.Collection: Spiritual
He that lives in love lives in God.Collection: God
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.Collection: Independent
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.Collection: Wise