Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. - Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. - 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. - 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 brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. - Robert Southey
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. - Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn. - Robert Southey
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) - Robert Southey