Isaac Watts Quotes
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.
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Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
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The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
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Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.
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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
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Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
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The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.