All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

— William Penn

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.

— William Penn

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 Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

— William Penn

A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

— William Penn

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

— William Penn

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must need be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

— William Penn