Isaac Watts Quote

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.


The Improvement of the Mind (ed. 1743)


As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual...

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual...

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual...

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual...