Quotes from William Penn

Death cannot kill what never dies.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

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

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.

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.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Let us see what love can do.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

He that lives in love lives in God.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

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