Robert Browning

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Love is energy of life.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Less is more.

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!

Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.