William Penn
27 quotations
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The public must and will be served.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.