William Penn > Quotes

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”
― William Penn

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
― William Penn

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude / More Fruits of Solitude

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.”
― William Penn

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
― William Penn

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
― William Penn

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
― William Penn

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee”
― William Penn

“Kekuatan kita akan berkurang, tetapi cinta bisa bertambah.
Dan orang yang memaafkan lebih dahulu adalah yang menang.”
― William Penn

“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
― William Penn

“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”
― William Penn

“Let us try what love will do.”
― William Penn

“Right is right even if everyone is against it. And wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
― William Penn

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
― William Penn

“If we would mend the World,
we should mend Ourselves;
and teach our Children to be,
not what we are,
but what they should be.”
― William Penn

“Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.”
― William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”
― William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

“Let us see what love can do.”
― William Penn

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”
― William Penn

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.”
― William Penn

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“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.”
― William Penn

“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.”
― William Penn

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.
For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”
― William Penn

“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
― William Penn