William Penn Quotes
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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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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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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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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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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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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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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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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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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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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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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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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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Experience is a safe guide.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience