More Quotes by William Penn
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Let us see what love can do.
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.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
