More Quotes by William Penn
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.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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.
