William Penn Quotes
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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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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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
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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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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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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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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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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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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.