Top 200 William Penn Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.”

— William Penn

52. “Truth never lost ground by enquiry.”

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

54. “Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.”

— William Penn

55. “I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”

— William Penn

56. “Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”

— William Penn

57. “To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.”

— William Penn

58. “For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience.”

— William Penn

59. “Perfect love casteth out fear.”

— William Penn

60. “Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.”

— William Penn

61. “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

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

— William Penn

63. “Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

65. “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

66. “Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.”

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

68. “Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.”

— William Penn

69. “If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”

— William Penn

70. “Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.”

— William Penn

71. “A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.”

— William Penn

72. “Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.”

— William Penn

73. “Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.”

— William Penn

74. “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

75. “For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.”

— William Penn

76. “Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

— William Penn

77. “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

78. “Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.”

— William Penn

79. “Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”

— William Penn

80. “Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”

— William Penn

81. “A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”

— William Penn

82. “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

83. “Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”

— William Penn

84. “Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”

— William Penn

85. “It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.”

— William Penn

86. “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

87. “The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.”

— William Penn

88. “Friendship is the union of spirits...”

— William Penn

89. “Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.”

— William Penn

90. “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.”

— William Penn

91. “Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.”

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

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

— William Penn

94. “Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.”

— William Penn

95. “She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.”

— William Penn

96. “Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”

— William Penn

97. “Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”

— William Penn

98. “You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.”

— William Penn

99. “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

100. “The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.”

— William Penn