William Penn Quotes

"Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast."
-William Penn

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

"If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants."
-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

"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee."
-William Penn in Trust quotes.

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
-William Penn in Silence quotes.

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
-William Penn

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
-William Penn in Friendship quotes.

"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 in Language quotes.

"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
-William Penn

"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand."
-William Penn

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."
-William Penn

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
-William Penn

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."
-William Penn

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. "
-William Penn

"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."
-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 bad."
-William Penn