155 Quotes by Robert Southey

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

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