Robert Browning

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"The proper way for a man to rise is by lift-your-own-self-up by the bootstraps."

"Love, hope, and courage—these are the graces that sustain us."

"Each day brings its petty surface pleasures and its sanely concealed pains."

"Write on! through night and day the words shall live; I engrave them on bronze."

"The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, the passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky."

"To know each other is to love each other."

"Your loved one's image never leaves the deepest chamber of your heart."

"When all hope seems lost, that is when the strongest heart reveals itself."

"Silence is the soul's music when the world becomes too loud."

"The greatest work is done not by genius, but by steady perseverance."

"What is January but a new beginning, a fresh chance to become who we wish?"

"Truth needs no oil of roses to make it sweet; it is sweet by its own nature."

"The night that stars choose to shine most brightly is when darkness is deepest."

"The world is not a court where you can expect justice."

"Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be."

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

"Life means intensity - that a man shall live more fully than others."

"The face is the soul's looking glass."

"It is best to have failure happen and to get the fear of it over."

"Knowledge in fragments is not power but confusion."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"Love is not getting, but giving."

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp."

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

"Truth is truth; you cannot alter it by denying it."

"To be patient in waiting is to find oneself at peace."

"The greatest gift is to be understood."

"Excellence is the path to the stars."