William Penn's Quotes

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.