More Quotes by William Penn
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
