William Penn
English Quaker, writer and founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718
31 quotes.
Quotes by William Penn
- Always rise from table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
- Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
- Be rather bountiful than expensive; do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
- 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.
- Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
- Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the Lawrel.
- If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
- In all things reason should prevail; it is quite another thing to be stiff, than steady in an opinion.
- It is not How we leave our Children, but What we leave them.
- It is well to cure, but better to prevent a Distemper. The first shows more Skill, but the last more Wisdom.
- It were better to be of no church than bitter for any.
- Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
- Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic.
- Love, therefore, labor; if thou shouldst not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome to the body and good for the mind; it prevents the fruit of idleness.
- No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
- No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
- Opportunities should never be lost, because they can hardly be regained.
- Patience and Diligence, like Faith, remove Mountains.
- Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
- Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- Sense shines with a double lustre when set in humility.
- The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
- The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
- There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous, since without it we can do nothing in this world. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst.
- They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
- Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst.
- 'Tis no Sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
- To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
- True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.
- Vertue is not secure against Envy. Men will Lessen what they won't Imitate.