Christina Rossetti

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

"We are both pilgrims to the same distant shrine."

"The Lord gives and the Lord takes away."

"The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy."

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

"Who has not felt how sadly sweet the dream of home, the native land."

"I have loved you, and shown you late, but deeply true."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"In this world, there are few things more powerful than a kind deed spoken at the right moment."

"What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow. What are light? Air and fleeting hour."

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

"One day to look back on and say 'I was happy' is enough."

"The lowest trees have tops that the highest peaks can never know."

"My heart is gladder than a bird, because spring is in the air."

"There is another longing that I have, which is much more constant."

"None other Lamb, none other Name, none other Hope in heaven or earth or sea."

"Silence more musical than any song."

"If I were a nightingale, I would sing of your sweetness all through the night."

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."

"A soul is a world in itself."

"Hope is like a bird that perches on the soul and sings without the words."

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"The greatest wealth is a peaceful heart."

"In every concealment there is also a revelation."

"Love is patient, love is kind, and love never fails."

"We are all fools in love."

"The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people."

"Death is but a doorway to another realm."

"What is the beginning of wisdom? The fear of the Lord, and the end is love."

"I dream of you to wake; would that I might dream of you and not awake."