“Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
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Famous William Penn Quotes
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
Source: The Papers of William Penn, Volume 5: William Penn's Published Writings, 1660-1726: An Interpretive Bibliography
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences”
Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia
“You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.”
Source: William Penn, a Historical Biography
“The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.”
“The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.”
Source: Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life
“No religion is better than an unnatural one.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life
Source: Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life
“We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.”
Source: Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life
“Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims