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Danh ngôn của William Penn (Sứ mệnh: 2)

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.