The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
Robert SoutheyTake away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
Robert SoutheyFaith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
Robert SoutheyThat charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Robert SoutheyWhatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.
Robert Southey