“Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.”

— 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.”

“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”

“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”