Quotes by William Penn

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

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

“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 o...”

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”

“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or haveThings of...”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”

“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

“Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.”

“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

“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.”

“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”