John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3275 Isaa Watts 1674-1748 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3275 |
| AUTHOR: | Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Horæ Lyricæ, Book ii. False Greatness. |
| Note 1. I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.—Seneca: On a Happy Life (L’Estrange’s Abstract), chap. i. It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.—Ovid: Metamorphoses, xiii. [back] |