William Penn Quotes (116 Quotes)

Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

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

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

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

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obeyd.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Unless virtue guides us, our choice must be wrong.

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

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

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage the requisite Means being wanting.

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

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

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

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation which were every commendable and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

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.

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

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

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

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

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

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

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.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Workhouse, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

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

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

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

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas they live in one another still.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

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.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

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

The public must and will be served.

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