Robert Southey

“My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.”

“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.”

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

“A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.”

“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.”

“What will not woman, gentle woman, dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?”

“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.”

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

“There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.”

“A state of suspense is the only state that is insupportable.”

“The three indispensables of genius are, first, Understanding; second, Understanding; and third, Understanding.”

“He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.”

“Man is a dupable animal. Quacks in medicine, quacks in religion, and quacks in politics know this and act upon that knowledge.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”