William Penn Quotes
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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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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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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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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly