William Penn Quotes
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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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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Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
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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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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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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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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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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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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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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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Let us try what love will do.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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Though death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.