We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than… — William Penn Copy Share Image
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment. — 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
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. — 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
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too… — 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
