Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"Sorrow is the price we pay for awareness."

"The beginning of all things is wonder; and one who has lost the capacity for wonder is dead."

"We live and learn, but not the wiser grow."

"A daisy by the shadow that it casts protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."

"The door of death is made of gold that shines so bright."

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"What sweeter music can we bring than a carol, for to sing here in this place so fair?"

"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."

"All the work of man can be classified as either making it, selling it, or preventing others from making it."

"Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement."

"Stillness is the altar of the spirit."

"The way of wisdom is plain and straight. There is a single path to virtue."

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

"In every heart there is some sadness and some gladness too."

"The sleep that flits on baby's cheek does not belong to earth."

"A man is a being with the capacity for infinite love and infinite suffering."

"What is the world but a place of endless beginning?"

"I would find my peace standing in the shadows at the edge of the light."

"The bonds of friendship are forged in the fires of true trial."

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as oneself!"

"The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and by which he is loved."

"Underneath the abject willow, when the rural world grows dim."

"A heart of stone in a body of flesh: this is a man."

"Every touch is a secret conversation between the world and my soul."

"True beauty requires discipline and patience, not mere accident."

"The test of a man's sincerity is whether he will stand by his words and works."

"In the moment of true love, time ceases and eternity begins."

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

"To be a woman is to fight a constant battle with the world."