“The secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
“Secretary of State Upshur lobbied a number of senators and party officials but not the key men....By doing this, he spread a wide net of support but did not risk interference by powerful men who might be opposed to the idea. He did it slowly, too, day by day, state by state. He met senators in hallways, in restaurants, and under trees.”
“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”
“If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
“The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”
Source: A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...
“Be rather bountiful, than expensive.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
“Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.”
“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed
“She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.”
“Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“They that soar too high, often fall hard.”
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
“Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition
“For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“He that lives in love lives in God.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.”
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
“Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.”
“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.”
“Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.”
“Oppression makes a poor country.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition
“The usefulest truths are the plainest.”
“Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.”
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
“A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.”
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
“Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.”
“You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.”
“Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.”
Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia
“Death cannot kill that which does not die.”
“Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.”
“A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.”
“What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.”
“False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.”
“Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition
“Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
