More Quotes by William Penn
Never despise what you don't understand.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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.
Let us see what love can do.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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.
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.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.