William Penn Quotes - Page 4

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

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

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

For we put the power in the people.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

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

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

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

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

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

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.

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.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

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

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.