William Penn Quotations | Page 2

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.