Robert Browning

"Music is the mathematics of emotion."

"Faith is the courage to believe without seeing."

"Leadership is service in its highest form."

"Work with joy, and you shall find joy in work."

"Dreams deferred become regrets; pursue them now."

"Humor is the wisdom of perspective."

"Beauty is truth's physical manifestation."

"Death teaches us how to live."

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things, whate'er you may believe."

"The lust of the flesh is not of God, and the lust of the eyes is not of God, but the pride of life is of the devil."

"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?"

"All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist."

"How good is man's life, the mere living, how fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

"Youth means love, though often love means youth."

"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life."

"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."

"Escape me? Never—Beloved! While I am I, and you are you."

"Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, not God's, and not the beasts."

"Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles."

"Open my heart and you will see graved inside of it 'Italy'."

"The world is not to be divided into the living and the dead, what divides it is change."

"Knowledge by suffering entereth, and life is perfected by death."

"Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, a fancy from a flower-bell."

"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

"The grand Perhaps! We look before and after, and pine for what is not."

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"Art may tell a truth obliquely—deal a compromise with fact."

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."