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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with W >> Quotes By William Penn |
| Quote #1: | "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers." |
| Quote #2: | "True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it." |
| Quote #3: | "True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." |
| Quote #4: | "No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown." |
| Quote #5: | "To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals." |
| Quote #6: | "If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains." |
| Quote #7: | "Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." |
| Quote #8: | "Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children." |
| Quote #9: | "Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." |
| Quote #10: | "Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely." |
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