Top 100 Quotes About William Penn
#1. The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh ... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Lawrence Welk
#2. The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren
#3. The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.
Woodrow Wilson
#4. Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. It was William Penn who said, "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that.
Kenneth Eade
#6. A true friend, freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William Penn
Shaun Gold
#7. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves (William Penn)- It was painfully true. I ended up hurting far more than anyone else whenever I allowed jealousy to infect me.
Gillibran Brown
#8. As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember ... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
Wayne Dyer
#9. The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
William Penn
#10. Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee
William Penn
#11. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
William Penn
#12. You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
#14. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#15. In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn
#19. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
#20. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
#21. Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.
William Penn
#22. Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn
#23. A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
William Penn
#24. Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
William Penn
#25. They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
#27. Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
#29. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
William Penn
#30. The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
William Penn
#31. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
#32. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
#33. True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
#34. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
#35. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
William Penn
#36. 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.
William Penn
#37. He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn
#38. Death cannot kill that which does not die.
William Penn
#39. It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
William Penn
#40. Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
William Penn
#41. Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn
#42. It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
William Penn
#43. If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
William Penn
#44. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
#45. The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
William Penn
#46. A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
William Penn
#47. Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?
William Penn
#48. Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
William Penn
#49. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
#50. Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
William Penn
#51. Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.
William Penn
#53. To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
William Penn
#54. They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.
William Penn
#55. They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
William Penn
#57. Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
William Penn
#58. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
#59. Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
#60. Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn
#61. Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn
#62. 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.
William Penn
#63. O Christian! do not falter,
The harvest field is white,
And many souls are sinking
Into eternal night.
William Evander Penn
#65. People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
William Penn
#66. Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
William Penn
#67. Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
William Penn
#68. Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
William Penn
#69. He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
William Penn
#70. To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn
#72. 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.
William Penn
#73. It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
William Penn
#74. 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.
William Penn
#75. I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
#76. Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
William Penn
#77. If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
William Penn
#78. 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
#79. Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
William Penn
#80. It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.
William Penn
#81. The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
William Penn
#82. If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
#83. Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
William Penn
#84. Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn
#85. Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
William Penn
#86. Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn
#87. 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
#88. Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
William Penn
#89. Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.
William Shakespeare
#90. The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
William Penn
#91. Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
William Penn
#92. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
William Penn
#93. Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
William Penn
#95. Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn
#96. Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
William Penn
#97. Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not bo heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, "Perfect love casteth out fear."
William Penn
#98. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
#99. They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
#100. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
William Penn
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