57 Quotes by Robert South

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.

No man’s religion ever survives his morals.

He that tears away a man’s good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

A man’s life is an appendix to his heart.

Flints may be melted – we see it daily – but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.

Folly enlarges men’s desires while it lessens their capacities.