Robert South

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

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.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

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.

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

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.