Famous Quotes from ...

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 to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.... William Penn {view}
  • They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.... William Penn {view}
  • Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.... William Penn {view}
  • Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die... William Penn {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children... William Penn {view}
  • The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune... William Penn {view}
  • Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.... William Penn {view}
  • In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self... William Penn {view}
  • Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.... William Penn {view}