Robert SoutheyThinkers

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme.

Brevity is effective — it is with words as with sun beams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Comprehension is overrated — Oh! what blockheads are those wise persons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything he reads.

A Curse is like a young chicken; it will always come home to roost.

Exeter is ancient and stinks.

Friend's loss is like the loss of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

A House is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.

Journalism is the arts babblative and scribblative.

A Kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.

Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.