346 Quotes by William Penn

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

...death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly...