William Penn Quotes
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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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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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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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 admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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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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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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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. 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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Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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Oppression makes a poor country.