“If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.”

— 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.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”