346 Quotes by William Penn

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

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

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.