William Penn

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.

Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.

Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the read more

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the read more

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.