Robert Southey Quotes

The march of intellect.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.

Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.

Your true lover of literature is never fastidious.

Thou has been called, O Sleep! the friend of Woe, But ’tis the happy who have called thee so.