Quotes By William Penn
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn