“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
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
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Famous William Penn Quotes
“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a
“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: No Cross, No Crown
“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”
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
“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed
“Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”
Source: William Penn, a Historical Biography
“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.”
Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia