William Penn Quotes - Good Quotes For Life
William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was a Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The democratic and libertarian principles that he set forth served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution.
William Penn Quotes:
William Penn Quotes
1. Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
― William Penn
2. Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
― William Penn
3. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
― William Penn
4. 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
5. 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
6. A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we do evil, that good may come of it...To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
― William Penn
7. True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
― William Penn
8. For we put the power in the people.
― William Penn
9. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, 'till Death separate you.
― William Penn
10. By Liberty of Conscience, we understand not only a mere Liberty of the Mind ... but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear or favor of any mortal man, we sin, and incur divine wrath.
― William Penn
11. Right is right even if everyone is against it. And wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.
― William Penn
12. 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
13. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
― William Penn
14. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
― William Penn
15. No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
― William Penn
16. Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
― William Penn
17. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
― William Penn
18. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
― William Penn
19. 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.
― William Penn
20. 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.
― William Penn
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