William Penn Quotes
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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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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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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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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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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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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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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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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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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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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
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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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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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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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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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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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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.