Quotes By William Penn

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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.

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

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

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