57 Quotes by Robert South

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.