Quotes by Quakers

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
William Penn
The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
William Penn
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn
Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
William Penn
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn
Next to God thy parents.
William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
William Penn
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
William Penn
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn
Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
William Penn
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn
Next to God thy parents.
William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
William Penn
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
William Penn
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
The smaller the drink the clearer the head.
William Penn
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
William Penn
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.
William Penn
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.
William Penn
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
William Penn
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.
William Penn
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
William Penn
I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.
William Penn
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
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
William Penn
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
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.
William Penn
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
John Woolman
Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or haveThings of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those thatare full of precious Drugs.They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and levelDwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of theWinds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings haveneed of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to theWeather.
William Penn
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
William Penn
Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
William Penn
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
William Penn
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
William Penn
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
William Penn
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn