William Penn Quotes
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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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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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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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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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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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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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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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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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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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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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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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Experience is a safe guide.