William Penn

“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.”

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”

“Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.”

“This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.”

“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or haveThings of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those thatare full of precious Drugs.They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and levelDwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of theWinds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings haveneed of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to theWeather.”

“Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.”

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”

“Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.”

“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.”

“If men be good, government cannot be bad.”

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.”

“Let us see what love can do.”

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”

“Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee”

“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”

“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”

“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”

“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.”

“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”

“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ”

“Kekuatan kita akan berkurang, tetapi cinta bisa bertambah.Dan orang yang memaafkan lebih dahulu adalah yang menang.”

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”

“Let us try what love will do.”

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”