It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey
Famous Quotes
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
— Robert Southey
Friendship
If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!
— Robert Southey
Generosity
"You are old, Father William." the young man cried,Now tell me the reason, I pray."
"In my days of youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."
How beautiful is night!How beautiful is night!
And then they knew the perilous Rock,And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”
— Robert Southey
Literature