Isaac Watts quotes

" Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do. " # Devil # Idleness # Writers and Writing

" 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. " # Idleness # Complaints and Complaining # Death and Dying

" Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. " # Children # Family # Love

" I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold " # Uncategorised # Change # Riches

" Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. " # Certainty # Books - Reading # Contentment

" Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. " # Life and Living # Cities and City Life # Love

" Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. " # Love # Friends and Friendship # Adversity

" Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear My voice ascending high. " # Life and Living # Love # Virtue

" Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. " # Age and Aging # Home # Hope

" A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. " # Age and Aging # Life and Living # Love