Father Quote by Robert South

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

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

— Robert South

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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

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

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

— 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…

— Robert South

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

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

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

— Robert South

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