William Penn Quotes
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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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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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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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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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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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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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.