Drawing Quote by Robert Southey

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…

— Robert Southey

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

— Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the…

— Robert Southey

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

— Robert Southey

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and…

— Robert Southey

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing…

— Robert Southey

Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

— Robert Southey

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;…

— Robert Southey

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

— Robert Southey

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

— Robert Southey

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be…

— Robert Southey

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

— Robert Southey