346 Quotes by William Penn

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

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.