Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims

Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims: Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims is a 1682 collection of epigrams and sayings put together by the early American Quaker leader William Penn. Like Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack" the work collected the wisdom of pre-Revolutionary America. It is included in volume one of the Harvard Classics.

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