More Quotes by William Penn
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.
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.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Oppression makes a poor country.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
