346 Quotes by William Penn

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.