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.

- Isaac Barrow

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

- Isaac Barrow

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 des…

- Isaac Barrow

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and …

- Isaac Barrow

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

- Isaac Barrow

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniforml…

- 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

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible …

- Isaac Barrow