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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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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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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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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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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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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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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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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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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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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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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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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The public must and will be served.
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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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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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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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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.