More from William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
No Cross, No Crown (1682)They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I, 46It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I, 535
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
