Isaac Barrow

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

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

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.