Isaac Barrow Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

  Isaac Barrow

  Country, Reading, Book

  Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”

• He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

  Isaac Barrow

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "The theological works of 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

  Friendship, Faith, Book

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78

• Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

  Isaac Barrow

  Flower, Book, House

  Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185

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