William Penn Quotes
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.