Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Category Archive: William Penn
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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.
To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.