William Penn Quotes on Man (19 Quotes)

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

Governments, like docks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined also. Therefore governments depend upon men rather then men upon governments.

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

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God, but in cities little else but the works of men.

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

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves and perhaps that is the reason of it

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.