Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live."

"I have been here before, but when or how I cannot tell."

"Love is the last thing in the world the world will understand."

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure what he has to bear."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

"The heart that loves is always in the right."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

"Beauty without expression is boring."

"The great national sin of any people is ingratitude to its benefactors."

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

"For this is the hard law of the world that it always weighs one side of a man's character against the other."

"All things are made easy through frequent repetition and practice."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"If you wish to be loved, show yourself worthy of love."

"Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which transcends personal enmity."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."

"A sonnet is a moment's monument."

"Art is not to be taught in academies. It is the birth of passion."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold."

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Genius is not a single light shining in the darkness, but a mirror which reflects the light of all humanity."

"The soul of man is made an immortal thing."

"In love's philosophy there is no absolute."