William Penn Quotes
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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.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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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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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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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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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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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
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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 thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
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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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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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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.