Robert Southey
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.Collection: 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.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: Peace
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.Collection: Friendship
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
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.Collection: Home
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.Collection: Death
If you would be pungent, be brief.Collection: Would Be
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Collection: Dream
By writing much, one learns to write well.Collection: Writing
Few people give themselves time to be friends.Collection: Loyalty
There is healing in the bitter cup.Collection: Healing
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memoryCollection: Perseverance
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.Collection: People
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.Collection: Knowledge
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.Collection: Happiness
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."Collection: Believe
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.Collection: Age
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.Collection: Country
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.Collection: Love
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.Collection: Peace
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.Collection: Speech
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.Collection: Prosperity
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.Collection: Love
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.Collection: Book
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.Collection: Mind
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.Collection: Wise
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!Collection: Memories
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.Collection: Writing
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.Collection: Fields
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.Collection: Home
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.Collection: Marriage
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!Collection: World
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!Collection: Dog
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."Collection: Fighting
Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.Collection: Morning
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.Collection: Christian
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?Collection: Summer
Cupid "the little greatest god."Collection: Life