Robert South

“Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.”

“Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.”

“Kings may be lovers of cheap glory, but they are generally expensive masters.”

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”

“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”

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

“Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.”

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”

“God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.”

“Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness, a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“Conscience is a man's compass.”

“An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.”

“Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.”

“The vow that binds too strictly snaps.”

“Covetousness, like a candle ill-made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.”

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”

“Innocence is like a polished armor; it adorns and defends.”