Famous William Penn Quotations

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"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."
by William Penn
"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."
by William Penn
"To be like Christ is to be a Christian."
by William Penn
"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 bad."
by William Penn
"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."
by William Penn
"Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn."
by William Penn
"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
by William Penn
"If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants."
by William Penn
"If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained."
by William Penn
"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man."
by 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."
by William Penn
"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
by William Penn
"Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
by William Penn
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
by William Penn
"No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown."
by 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."
by William Penn
"Religion is nothing else but love of God and man"
by William Penn
"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
by William Penn
"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns"
by 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."
by William Penn
"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice"
by William Penn
"They have a right to censure that have a heart to help."
by William Penn
"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."
by William Penn
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
by William Penn
"True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
by 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."
by William Penn
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
by William Penn
"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one."
by William Penn
"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."
by William Penn
"Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope."
by William Penn
"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee."
by William Penn
"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."
by William Penn
"Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants."
by William Penn
"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise."
by William Penn
"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."
by William Penn
"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."
by William Penn
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
by William Penn
"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."
by William Penn
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
by William Penn
"To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations."
by 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."
by William Penn


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