An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. Isaac Barrow More Quotes by Isaac Barrow More Quotes From Isaac Barrow Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. Isaac Barrow complicationwickednessslander Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back. Isaac Barrow retreatsinifs In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security. Isaac Barrow favorsmenworld The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. Isaac Barrow noblemenheaven We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Isaac Barrow be-goodgoodnessmay 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. Isaac Barrow truthdarkjusticemen Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. Isaac Barrow expectstrangepracticemen
