Quote by William Penn (1644-1718)

• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

• Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal 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.

• If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

• True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.