William Penn Quotes
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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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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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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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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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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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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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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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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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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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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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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.