William Penn
William Penn
William Penn24 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 October 1644
CityLondon, England
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not bo heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, "Perfect love casteth out fear."
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
...death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly...
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.