Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

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

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

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

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn

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

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn