William Penn Quotes
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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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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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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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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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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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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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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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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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.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.