Quotes

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” Cesare Pavese

“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.” Cesare Pavese

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.” Cesare Pavese

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.” Cesare Pavese

“It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?” Cesare Pavese

“Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.” Cesare Pavese

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” William Penn

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” William Penn

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” William Penn

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” William Penn

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” William Penn

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” William Penn

“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” William Penn

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” William Penn

“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” William Penn

“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” William Penn

“Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.” William Penn

“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.” William Penn

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.” William Penn

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.” William Penn

“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.” William Penn

“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.” William Penn

“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

“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.” William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.” William Penn

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” William Penn

“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.” William Penn

“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

“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.” William Penn

“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.” William Penn