William Penn Quotes
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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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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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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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Let us try what love will do.
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Let us see what love can do.
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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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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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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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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
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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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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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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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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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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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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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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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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.