Books Quote by Isaac Barrow

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

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

— Isaac Barrow

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

— Isaac Barrow

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

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

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

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

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

— Isaac Barrow

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

— Isaac Barrow

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

— Isaac Barrow

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

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

— Isaac Barrow