Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation? — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
