William Penn Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

  William Penn

  Marriage, Wise, Wedding

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26

• Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

  William Penn

  Thinking, People, Virtue

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

• Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

  William Penn

  Friendship, Heart, Unions

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

  William Penn

  Choices, Liberty, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.45, Courier Corporation

• Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

  William Penn

  Men, Liberty, Virtue

  "Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia".

• Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

  William Penn

  Real, Home, Heart

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

• We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  William Penn

  Love, Praise, Virtue

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.181

• Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

  William Penn

  Art, Links, Virtue

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

• Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

  William Penn

  Children, Sweet Love, Sobriety

• 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.

  William Penn

  Men, Sides, Principles

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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