Harvard Classics, Vol. 1, Part 3

Some Fruits of Solitude

William Penn

The aphorisms of the founder of Pennsylvania published anonymously so as not to be reimprisoned for disloyalty epitomize the simple Quaker truths upon which the Republic would be based.

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Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note The Preface Part I: Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims Ignorance Education Pride Luxury Inconsideration Disappointment and Resignation Murmuring Censoriousness Bounds of Charity Frugality or Bounty Discipline Industry Temperance Apparel Right Marriage Avarice Friendship Qualities of a Friend Caution and Conduct Reparation Rules of Conversation Eloquence Temper Truth Justice Secrecy Complacency Shifts Interest Inquiry Right-timing Knowledge Wit Obedience to Parents Bearing Promising Fidelity Master Servant Jealousy Posterity A Country Life Art and Project Industry Temporal Happiness Respect Hazard Detraction Moderation Trick Passion Personal Cautions Ballance Popularity Privacy Government A Private Life A Publick Life Qualifications Capacity Clean Hands Dispatch Patience Impartiality Indifferency Neutrality A Party Ostentation Compleat Virtue Religion Part II: More Fruits of Solitude Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims The Introduction to the Reader The Right Moralist The World’s Able Man The Wise Man Of the Government of Thoughts Of Envy Of Man’s Life Of Ambition Of Praise or Applause Of Conduct in Speech Union of Friends Of Being Easy in Living Of Man’s Inconsiderateness and Partiality Of the Rule of Judging Of Formality Of the Mean Notion we Have of God Of the Benefit of Justice Of Jealousy Of State Of a Good Servant Of an Immediate Pursuit of the World Of the Interest of the Publick in our Estates The Vain Man The Conformist The Obligations of Great Men to Almighty God Of Refining upon Other Men’s Actions or Interests Of Charity