William Penn Quotes

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

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

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

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

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

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

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

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

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

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.

A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

Next to God thy parents.

O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.