William Penn Quotes
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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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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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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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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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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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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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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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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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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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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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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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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Let us see what love can do.
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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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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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Let us try what love will do.
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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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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.