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 ...
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Famous William Penn Quotes
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
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
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: 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 man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition
“Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.”
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
“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.”
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
Source: No Cross, No Crown
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
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“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
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
Source: No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“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
“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
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.”