Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I… — William Penn Copy Share Image
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience — William Penn Copy Share Image
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and… — 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
