Quotes by "William Penn"

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

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.

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

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.

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

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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.

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

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

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

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.