Isaac Quotes

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

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.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

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

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Understanding brings control.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.