Robert Browning

"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."

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

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

"Love is energy of life."

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

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

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

"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."

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

"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."