Inspirational Quotes by William Penn
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― William Penn ,
“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”
“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”
“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”
“Kekuatan kita akan berkurang, tetapi cinta bisa bertambah. Dan orang yang memaafkan lebih dahulu adalah yang menang.”
“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.”
topics: intelligence
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”
“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ”
topics: law
“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.”
topics: jealous-jealousy
“Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.”
― William Penn ,
from Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
topics: aphorism
“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.”
― William Penn ,
from Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
topics: aphorism
“Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.”
topics: right-marriage
“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.”
― William Penn ,
“Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.”
― William Penn ,
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William Penn was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, Philadelphia was planned and developed.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame(s) of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates," in his voluminous writings.