“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”

— 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.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”