William Penn on public schools
"The prosperity and welfare of any people depend, in great measure, upon the good education of youth, and their early instruction in the principles of true religion... Read more.
The impressions we give to children
"There should be the greatest care imaginable, what impressions are given to children; that method which earliest awakens their understandings to love, duty, sobriety,... Read more.
A witness has handled something true
"It is impossible that a mere man, with all his abilities, arts, and acquirements, can turn people from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, which... Read more.
Penn: Turning from time to eternity
"The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. He that makes this his care, will find it his crown at last. And he that lives to live ever, never fears... Read more.
How truth suffers
"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those who offer it, for truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its... Read more.
Retire into your own soul
"At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest: for a man cannot retire any whither to be more at rest, and freer from... Read more.
Silence Is to the Spirit What Sleep Is to the Body
"Love silence, even in the mind; for thoughts are to the mind as words are to the body, troublesome; much speaking, as well as much thinking, spends
True silence... Read more.
William Penn: Why Man Abuses the World
"It would go a great way to caution and direct people in their use of the world, that they were better studied and known in the creation of it.
For how could... Read more.
The Hardest Lesson
"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."... Read more.
Exciting Our Endeavors to Mend the World
"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavours to mend it; not to hide their candle under... Read more.