Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being… — Robert South Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion… — Robert South Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. — Robert South Copy Share Image
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
