William Penn Mind Quotations

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

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.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.