William Penn Quotes
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. 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. 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. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. 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. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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