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.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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 must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
