The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

— William Penn

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

— William Penn

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

— William Penn

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

— William Penn

The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.

— William Penn

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.

— William Penn

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. 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

Time is what we want most but... what we use worse.

— William Penn

Time is what we want most, but what we use worse.

— William Penn

To be furious in religion is to be religiously religious.

— William Penn