Top 260 Quotes & Sayings by William Penn - Page 5

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

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.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

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

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.