Quotes By William Penn

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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.

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.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

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.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.