More Quotes by William Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Let us see what love can do.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
