10 Quotes By Robert Southey


No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey on friendship

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey on health

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey on peace

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey on pet

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey on time

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey on time

Ambition is an idol, on whose wi
Robert Southey on ambition

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Robert Southey on children

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Robert Southey on judgment

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey on words