Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay