346 Quotes by William Penn

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.