More Quotes by William Penn
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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.
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.
