More Quotes by William Penn
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.
Never despise what you don't understand.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
