William Penn

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

— William Penn

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

— William Penn

Experience is a safe guide.

— William Penn

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

— William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

— William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

— William Penn

For we put the power in the people.

— William Penn

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.

— William Penn

Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

— William Penn

“Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.”

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

— William Penn

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

— William Penn

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

— William Penn

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

— William Penn

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not…

— William Penn

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as…

— William Penn

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

— William Penn

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

— William Penn

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who…

— William Penn

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and…

— William Penn

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars…

— 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

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I…

— William Penn

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of…

— William Penn

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward…

— William Penn

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never…

— William Penn

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it…

— William Penn

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business…

— William Penn

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there…

— William Penn

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in…

— William Penn

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

— William Penn

Never despise what you don't understand.

— William Penn

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

— William Penn

Oppression makes a poor country.

— William Penn

Friendship is the union of spirits...

— William Penn

The best recreation is to do good.

— William Penn

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

— William Penn

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

— William Penn