William Penn (1644-1718) quotes

• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.
• A true friend freely, advices justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
• He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
• He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
• If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
• It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
• Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
• Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
• Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
• O lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
• Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
• To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
• To be like Christ is to be a Christian.