Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. William Penn Read Quote
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. William Penn Read Quote
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn Read Quote
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. William Penn Read Quote
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. William Penn Read Quote
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. William Penn Read Quote
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn Read Quote
