William Penn Quotes
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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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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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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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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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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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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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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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False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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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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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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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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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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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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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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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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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.