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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to
make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,
as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have
Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those that
are full of precious Drugs.
They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level
Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the
Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have
need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the
Weather.”
― William Penn

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.”
― William Penn

“Let us see what love can do.”
― 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

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

“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ”
― William Penn

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
― William Penn

“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.”
― William Penn, Fruits of Solitude; Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.”
― William Penn, Fruits of Solitude; Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.”
― William Penn

“(advice to his children)
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.”
― William Penn

“If men be good, government cannot be bad.”
― William Penn

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”
― William Penn, Fruits of Solitude; Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life