57 Quotes by Robert South

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.