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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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