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Quotes by William Penn

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
– William Penn
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.
– William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
– William Penn
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
– William Penn
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
– William Penn
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
– William Penn
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
– William Penn
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
– William Penn
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
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
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
– William Penn
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
– William Penn
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
– William Penn
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
– William Penn
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
– William Penn
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
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.
– William Penn
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
– William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory, no glory; no cross, no crown.
– William Penn
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
– William Penn
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
– William Penn
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
– William Penn
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
– William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
– William Penn
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
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
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
– William Penn
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
– William Penn
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
– William Penn
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
– William Penn
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
– William Penn
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
– William Penn
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
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
– William Penn
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
– William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
– William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
– William Penn
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
– William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
– William Penn
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
– William Penn
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
– William Penn
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
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
– William Penn