William Penn Quotes

• 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.

  William Penn

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Coolness, Defenders, Right, Reason

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Oppression, Reading, Reason, Mind

• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

  William Penn

  Topics in God

  Tags in Tyrants, Tyranny, Will, Men

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Breed, Dogs, Horses

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Christianity, Care, Learn, Reason

• Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Enjoyment, Lust, Grows, Reason

• Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

  William Penn

  Tags in Wit, Judgment And Judges, Sail

• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

  William Penn

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Treasure, Man

• Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imitate, Should

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Premium, Pay, Property, Obedience

• It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Would, Bitter

• 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

  Topics in Beauty, Money, Wedding, Wisdom

  Tags in Friends, Virtue, Marriage

• If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discipline, Weakness, Thou

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

  William Penn

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Humility, Poor, Pride, Ignorance, Clothes

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Care, Owes, Taught

• He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paradise, War, Reward

• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Forgives, Gains, Force

• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrites, Converts, Force

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

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Ought, Servants, Sweetness, Wife

• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Popularity, Snares, Avoid

William Penn (50)

Birth:	14th October, 1644
Death:	30th July, 1718
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Philosopher

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