Robert Southey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.”

“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”