Tom Costello

“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to
make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,
as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have
Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those that
are full of precious Drugs.
They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level
Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the
Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have
need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the
Weather.”
― William Penn

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

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”
― William Penn, Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.