More Quotes by William Penn
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.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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.
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.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
