All William Penn Quotes
- The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. Envy
- Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. Anti War
- Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. Desire
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. Bereavement
- Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. God
- Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. Attire
- True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. Body
- Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. Betray
- Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. Diligence
- Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of… Enjoyment
- Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. Avoid
- O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. Despise
- In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a… Beauty
- A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Cannot Sanctify
- Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. Able
- Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. Insurance
- Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. Cynical
- Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Bible
- He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. Both
- He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to… Care
- True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. Better
- It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. Any
- Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. Book
- Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. Authority
- Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Ballast