William Penn Quotes
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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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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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oppression makes a poor country.
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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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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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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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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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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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Let us see what love can do.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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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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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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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.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.