All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
More 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.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.