Quotes by Robert Southey

Robert Southey

“You are old, Father William,” the young man cried, “The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray.”

Father

Locks

Men

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A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

Disease

Mind

Taste

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A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Good Man

Men

Wise

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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.

Children

House

Years

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A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

Marriage

Men

Thinking

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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Littles

Mind

Stubborn

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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

Judging

Law

Wise

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

Love

Men

Trials

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

Life

Lying

Practice

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Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

Blessed

Death

Quiet

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