A collection of quotes and thoughts by William Penn on death, Pennsylvania, government, love, kindness, right, crossing, Philadelphia, beyond, and patience.
36 Great Quotes By William Penn
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Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
William Penn was a celebrated English philosopher, founder of the State of Pennsylvania, real estate entrepreneur, and early Quaker. He was an early proponent of religious freedom and democracy. He is also renowned for his successful treaties and amiable relations with the Lenape Native Americans. The city of Philadelphia was designed and developed under his direction. Being one of the early exponents of colonial unification, he urged and wrote in favour of uniting all the English colonies. United States Constitution drew inspiration from the democratic principles that Penn set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government. We have rounded some notable quotes and sayings by William Penn, which have been collected from his works, thoughts, writings, books and life. Zoom through for the famous quotes and thoughts by William Penn on friendship, jealousy, beauty, mind, health, sleep, trust, knowledge, ignorance, laurels, eternity, popularity, etc.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
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.
William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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.
William Penn
My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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.
William Penn
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.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.
William Penn
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
(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.
William Penn
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
William Penn
Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
William Penn
I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
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
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
William Penn
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
William Penn
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.
William Penn
Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.
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. )
