The quotations of

William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

1644–1718

9 quotes, most often on God, Love and Religion.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Christianity
- Success
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I, 46
- Justice
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.
Advice to his children (1699)
- Reading
It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I, 535
- Religion
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 537–539
- Good & Evil
- Morality
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 554–556
- God
- Love
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), no. 9
- Nature
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
More Fruits of Solitude (1702), nos. 127–134
- Friendship
- Life & Death

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