Quotes By William Penn
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of 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
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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