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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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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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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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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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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No religion is better than an unnatural one.
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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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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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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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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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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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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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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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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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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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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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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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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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.