Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against… — William Penn Copy Share Image
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn Copy Share Image
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more… — William Penn Copy Share Image
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine;… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
![“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us…” quote by William Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75a/william-penn-1104_comfort_tho-ugh-death-be-a-dark-passage-it-leads_2782573.jpg)
