Men Quotes by William Penn

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

— William Penn

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

— William Penn

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.

— William Penn

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

— William Penn

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

— William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

— William Penn

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and…

— William Penn

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors…

— William Penn

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

— William Penn

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily…

— 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

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

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and…

— 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

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for…

— William Penn

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied…

— William Penn

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved…

— William Penn

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed…

— William Penn

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as…

— William Penn

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more…

— William Penn

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle…

— William Penn

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to…

— William Penn

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them…

— William Penn

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

— William Penn

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

— William Penn

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

— William Penn

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach…

— William Penn

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn…

— William Penn