Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

- William Penn

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

- William Penn

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

- William Penn

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.

- William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

- William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

- William Penn

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

- William Penn

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

- William Penn

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

- William Penn

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

- William Penn

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

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

- William Penn

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

- William Penn

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

- William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

- William Penn

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

- William Penn

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

- William Penn

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

- William Penn

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

- William Penn

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

- William Penn