The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of …

- Robert Southey

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the ch…

- Robert Southey

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.

- Robert Southey

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

- Robert Southey

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.

- Robert Southey

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 …

- Robert Southey

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

- Robert Southey

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

- Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

- Robert Southey