Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Live
Done
Time
Moderns
Studious
Ancients
Ancient
Learning
Past

More quotes by William Penn

Image
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
Image
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
William Penn
Image
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
William Penn
Image
He that lives in love lives in God.
William Penn
Image
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
Image
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
William Penn
Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
William Penn
Image
For we put the power in the people.
William Penn
Image
Let us see what love can do.
William Penn
Image
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
William Penn
Image
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn
Image
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn
Image
Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
William Penn
Image
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn
Image
Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
William Penn
Image
You are Englishmen mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
Image
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn
Image
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
Image
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
William Penn
Image
Peace can only be secured by justice never by force of arms.
William Penn