Robert Browning

"Less is more in art and life alike."

"The lost, the least, the listless hour."

"Since light travels faster than sound, is that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?"

"I have desired to go where the springs not fail, to fields where flies no sharp and sided hail."

"Grow old with me—the adventure has not ended."

"The supreme question about any work of art is simply this: is it true?"

"Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, all to come after it,—so strange!"

"We've a secret in our hearts that even we don't know."

"Each soul has its appointed work in the world."

"Just for a word's sake, bid me do the deed."

"Living means not merely breathing—it means action, growth, creation."

"There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before."

"If we merely want to be happy, we shall never be so."

"Sing, riding's a joy! For example, in green of the New Year."

"The future is just darkness without you."

"What one project have you undertaken that required courage?"

"He fixed thee 'mid this dance of plastic circumstance."

"God's in his heaven—all's right with the world."

"Let him never come back to us. There is not a hand in all the world so pure!"

"The moment eternal—just that and no more."

"Wisdom without virtue is like a sword in the hand of a drunkard."

"What you love is your vocation."

"In three days, too many things come to pass for one to properly chronicle them all."

"Better to live and die unknown than to live a slave to popular opinion."

"God loves the sorrowful; let us at least try not to add to others' grief."

"I die: but first your light goes! Farewell."

"The voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

"I hold myself of such account—do you?"

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!"

"Before the beginning of years, there came to my heart a foreign woe."