About Robert South: Robert South was an English churchman, known for his combative preaching.
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.
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.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
