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More Quotes by William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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 adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
