More Quotes by William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Let us see what love can do.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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.
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.
