William Penn World Quotations

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.