Quotes from William Penn

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

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

Let us see what love can do.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

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.

Kekuatan kita akan berkurang, tetapi cinta bisa bertambah. Dan orang yang memaafkan lebih dahulu adalah yang menang.

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

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

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

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

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

advice to his 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.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

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.

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.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

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

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

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

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.