346 Quotes by William Penn

Let us try what love will do.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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