Some Fruits of Solitude

What it is

Maxims on marriage, money, government, and death, written in a period of political disgrace by the founder of Pennsylvania.

Why it lasted

The best known Quaker book after Fox's Journal, and a summary of the plain ethical style Quakerism made its own.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.