William Penn > Quotes

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

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
― William Penn

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

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

“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, 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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Let us see what love can do.”
― 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

“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

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

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

“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

“Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.”
― William Penn