| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Watts |
| | | For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. | 1 |
| How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower. | 2 |
| In works of labour or of skill, / I would be busy too, / For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. | 3 |
| Let dogs delight to bark and bite, / For God hath made them so. | 4 |
| Our life contains a thousand springs, / And dies if one be gone; / Strange that a harp of thousand strings / Should keep in tune so long. | 5 |
| Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. | 6 |
| The mind’s the standard of the man. | 7 |
| The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials, virtues, and devotions, is very practicable. | 8 |
| To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven. | 9 |
| Were I so tall to reach the pole / Or grasp the ocean with my span, / I must be measured by my soul: / The mind’s the standard of the man. | 10 | | |
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