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.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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.
Oppression makes a poor country.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
