More Quotes by William Penn
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
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.
Oppression makes a poor country.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.