William Penn Quotes

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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

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

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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

Never despise what you don't understand.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

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

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.

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.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

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

Let us see what love can do.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

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.

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

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

Oppression makes a poor country.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.