William Penn

26 quotes

"Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it."

William Penn

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it."

William Penn

"A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him."

William Penn

"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."

William Penn

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn

"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."

William Penn

"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."

William Penn

"To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's."

William Penn

"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

William Penn

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

William Penn

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents."

William Penn

"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

William Penn

"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."

William Penn

"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."

William Penn

"A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him."

William Penn

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it."

William Penn

"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."

William Penn

"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."

William Penn

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents."

William Penn

"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."

William Penn

"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

William Penn

"To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's."

William Penn

"Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it."

William Penn

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn

"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

William Penn