A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.
Isaac WattsFancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Isaac WattsMust I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Isaac WattsIn Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
Isaac Watts