More Quotes by William Penn
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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.
