346 Quotes by William Penn

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. 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.

He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

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

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people’s.

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

Judgement is the treasure of a wise man. He that has more knowledge than judgement is made for another man's use more than his own.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.