William Penn Quotes

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

~ William Penn

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.

~ William Penn

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

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

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

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.

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

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.

~ William Penn

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.

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

~ William Penn

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

~ William Penn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

~ William Penn

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

~ William Penn

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

~ William Penn

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

~ William Penn

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

~ William Penn

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

~ William Penn

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

~ William Penn

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

~ 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.

~ William Penn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

~ William Penn