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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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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We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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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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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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 thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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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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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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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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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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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.
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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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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.