William Penn Quotes
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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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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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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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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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Let us see what love can do.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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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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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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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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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Let us try what love will do.
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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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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.