William Penn Quotes

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

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

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

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

Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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

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

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

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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.

Next to God thy parents.

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.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

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 of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. 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.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

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

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

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. 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.

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

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

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

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

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.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

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

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.

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.

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

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 small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those thatare full of precious Drugs.They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and levelDwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of theWinds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings haveneed of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to theWeather.

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 Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

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.

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.

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

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

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.