56 Quotes by Isaac Barrow

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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.

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

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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

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

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.