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• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,--no!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• 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!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Saul, ix...
• Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part v...
• Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the bea
  God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be....
• Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
  -- Henry M. Robe...
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- In a Balcony...
• For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
  No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forge...