Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Penn

• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
• 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 his father's care.
• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
• 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 friend, a companion, a second self.
• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
• Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
• 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.
• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
• Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
• 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.
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.