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William Penn [1644-1718] English

Rank: 101
Leader, Real estate entrepreneur

William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Knowledge, Men, Time, Wisdom, Beauty, Death, Faith, Famous, Friendship, God, Government, Health, Jealousy, Learning, Marriage, Money, Patience, Trust, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.	Jealousy	101
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.	Famous	102
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.	Time	103
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.	Truth	104
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.	God, Men	105
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.	Men	106
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.	Death, Time	107
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.	Trust	108
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.		109
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.		110
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.		111
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.		112
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.	Friendship	113
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.	Government	114
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.	Health	115
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.		116
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.		117
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.		118
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.	Wisdom	119
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.		120
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.	Beauty, Marriage, Money	121
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.		122
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.	Faith, Patience	123
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.		124
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.		125
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.		126
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.	Wisdom	201
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.		202
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.		203
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.		204
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.		205
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.	Knowledge	206
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.		207
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.		208
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.		209
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.	Knowledge	210
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.		211
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.		212
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.	Learning	213
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.		214
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.		215
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.		216
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.		217
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.		218
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.		219
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.		220

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