346 Quotes by William Penn

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

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.