Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Robert Southey
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.