Christina Rossetti

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather."

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

"Oh, to be worn out by the world, to be cast aside and forgotten."

"Love will make a way out of no way."

"Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end."

"Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, but when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing by."

"Time is flying never to return."

"The heart knoweth its own bitterness."

"Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth."

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

"Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart."

"Silence more musical than any song."

"My heart is like a singing bird."

"The promise of a new day."

"Brands of gold are on the tree and silver on the vine."

"Life is not a dream. But it may be made to approach to one."

"I have loved you long and dearly."

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

"Art is long, and time is fleeting."

"The strongest prayer and the truest prayer is only a desire."

"Let us do all the good we can to all the people we can."

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

"Yesterday is past, tomorrow is uncertain, today is present."

"Knowledge is power if you know it about the right person."

"We must make the best of what lies before us."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."

"The mind has its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

"Fair, kind, and true is all we need."

"Speak truth and shame the devil."

"Hope that is hope no longer, but despair."