More Quotes by William Penn
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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.
