William Penn quotes

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. (William Penn)
To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
William Penn
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
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
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. (William Penn)
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
William Penn
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
William Penn
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.
William Penn
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
William Penn
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
William Penn
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. (William Penn)
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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