Robert Browning

"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break."

"Fail as you seem to me, you who forever grasping for the infinite."

"The gloom, the glory, the precipice."

"What portion of the world's weal comes into being through hope?"

"For sudden the worst turns the best to the worst and will leave, what'sover was first."

"There may be heaven; there must be hell; meanwhile, there is our life here—well."

"Thought and feeling blend to form one substance."

"Be sure yourself and you shall be sure of everything."

"The world's no blot for us, nor blank; it means intensely, and means good."

"How sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet."

"Where can we turn for comfort but to our friends?"

"My fear is lest you get to think that we are not all of equal account."

"Believe in yourself and all that you are."

"Love is best perceived through patient waiting."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"Stand still, the trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost."

"That's the happy ending of a song which the whole world sings."

"Faultless to a fault."

"Wonder's no Wonder when the Wonderful's gone."

"No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."

"The year's at the spring, and day's at the morn."

"All good things which exist are the fruits of justice."

"Pain is what the world is about; yet we are taught to whisper and deny it."

"I trust in nature for the stable elements and for the unstable element in myself."

"Where both deliberate, the love is slight: where both are mad, the love is absolute."

"Good, to forgive; best, to forget."

"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."

"God is in all things, and all things are in God."

"He never knew how to say no, or he'd have been a far richer man."