110+ William Penn Quotes On Death, Pennsylvania And Time

William Penn was an English leader and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. He was a prominent Quaker and was granted the land by King Charles II of England. Penn was an advocate for religious freedom and was a major figure in the early history of the United States. Following is our collection on famous quotes by William Penn on death, pennsylvania, time.

Top 10 William Penn Quotes

1. Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
2. The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
3. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
4. Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
5. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
6. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
7. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
8. No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
9. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
10. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

William Penn Short Quotes

• The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
• Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
• Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
• Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
• Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

William Penn Quotes About Death

Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. — William Penn

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying. — William Penn

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. — William Penn

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers. — William Penn

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. — William Penn

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward. — William Penn

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you. — William Penn

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Time

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer. — William Penn

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing. — William Penn

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. — William Penn

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular. — William Penn

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world. — William Penn

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Religious

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. — William Penn

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. — William Penn

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Mind

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. — William Penn

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. — William Penn

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body. — William Penn

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good. — William Penn

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. — William Penn

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind. — William Penn

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right. — William Penn

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient. — William Penn

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Wise

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. — William Penn

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. — William Penn

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one. — William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. — William Penn

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man. — William Penn

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. — William Penn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Virtue

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. — William Penn

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong. — William Penn

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue. — William Penn

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard. — William Penn

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad. — William Penn

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it. — William Penn

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. — William Penn

William Penn Quotes About Thou

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. — William Penn

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. — William Penn

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. — William Penn

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. — William Penn

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. — William Penn

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely. — William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. — William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. — William Penn

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn

William Penn Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — William Penn

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. — William Penn

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — 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. — William Penn

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. — William Penn

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. — William Penn

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine. — William Penn

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. — William Penn

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. — William Penn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. — William Penn

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind. — William Penn

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement. — William Penn

The best recreation is to do good. — William Penn

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. — William Penn

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected. — William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. — William Penn

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now. — William Penn

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs. — William Penn

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides. — William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty. — William Penn

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. — William Penn

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. — William Penn

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed. — William Penn

Never despise what you don't understand. — William Penn

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. — William Penn

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects. — William Penn

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. — 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. — William Penn

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. — William Penn

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood. — William Penn

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment. — William Penn

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own. — William Penn

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. — William Penn

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. — William Penn

Perfect love casteth out fear. — William Penn

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants. — William Penn

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last. — William Penn

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. — William Penn

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness. — William Penn

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be. — William Penn

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. — William Penn

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. — William Penn

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. — William Penn

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. — William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. — William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. — William Penn

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility. — William Penn

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. — William Penn

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. — William Penn

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. — William Penn

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last. — William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof? — William Penn

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. — William Penn

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour. — William Penn

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. — William Penn

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it? — William Penn

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent. — William Penn

Life Lessons by William Penn

1. William Penn taught the importance of religious freedom and tolerance, encouraging peaceful coexistence between different faiths and cultures.
2. He also demonstrated the power of perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity, as he faced numerous legal and financial struggles in his life.
3. Lastly, he showed the importance of speaking up for what you believe in, as he was a strong advocate for civil rights and religious freedom.