“He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.”
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
“Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.”
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
“Perfect love casteth out fear.”
“It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
“God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.”
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
“This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed
“Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.”
“I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.”
“It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed
“That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.”
“Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.”
Source: The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc
“Friendship is the union of spirits.”
“The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.”
“'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”
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
“Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.”
“By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”
Source: The Select Works of 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.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
Source: The Sandy Foundation Shaken, Or Those So Generally Believed and Applauded Doctrines of One God, Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons [etc.] Refuted, from the Authority of Scriptures Testimonies and Right Reason
“Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.”
“Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Anything less than full justice is cruelty.”
“The best recreation is to do good.”
Source: No Cross, No Crown ...
“The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.”
Source: No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts
“Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.”
Source: The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”
Source: Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented
“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience”
Source: A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox
“The public must and will be served.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“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.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
