Source: The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge
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Famous Isaac Watts Quotes
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
“I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.”
Source: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts
“The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.”
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
“And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.”
Source: Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc
“Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
“Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.”
“To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
“I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.”
Source: Dr. Watts' Psalms and hymns with Dr. Rippon's selection: containing all the additional hymns : with copious indices, including an index of the first line of each verse of Psalms and hymns
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts: To which are Added Indexes, Very Much Enlarged and Improved, to Facilitate the Use of the Whole in Finding Psalms Or Hymns Suited to Particular Subjects Or Occasions
“In books, or work, or healthful play.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts ...: Collated with the Best Editions
“Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”
Source: Parish psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns for public worship: containing Dr. Watts's versification of the psalms of David, entire, a large portion of Dr. Watts's hymns, and psalms and hymns by other authors, selected and original. To which are appended, the confession of faith and Shorter catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Source: Psalms and hymns for public worship: containing all the psalms and hymns of Dr. Watts which are deemed valuable, together with a new version of all the Psalms and many original hymns besides a large collection from other writers
“What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.”
“Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.”
“I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold”
Source: Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc
“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”
Source: Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead