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
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.