"All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad."
- William Penn
"A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably."
"There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."
"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last."
"If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient."
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again."
"The smaller the drink the clearer the head."
"It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any."
"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles."
"A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him."