“Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures.”

— William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I

About William Penn

1644 – 1718

English Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, author of "Some Fruits of Solitude".

“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

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

“Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it.”

“Let love steal in disguised as friendship.”

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.”

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

“Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree.”

“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings, / And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”

“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”