Robert Southey

"If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. "

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth. "

"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die. "

"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. "