Robert South

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

— Robert South

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

— Robert South

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.

— Robert South

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.

— Robert South

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

— Robert South

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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.

— Robert South

Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

— Robert South