Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!
Robert SoutheyThe true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
Robert SoutheyWhatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Robert SoutheyA 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.
Robert SoutheyI have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Robert Southey