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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1565 |
| AUTHOR: | William Penn (1644–1718) |
| QUOTATION: | A private Life is to be preferr’d; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims, no. 370, p. 73 (1903, reprinted 1976). |
| SUBJECTS: | Public service |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | William Penn Collection |
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