#Quote
More Quotes by William Penn
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.
Never despise what you don't understand.
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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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.
