William Penn Quotes
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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Friendship is the union of spirits.
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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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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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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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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for 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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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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.
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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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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
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The public must and will be served.
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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.