Quotes by Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.

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.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

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.