Quote #18
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. (1)
More from William Penn
- The public must and will be served.
- Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Pro…
- Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. (…
- It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
- 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…
- Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosu…