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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...
• How sad and bad and mad it was! But then, how it was sweet!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Confessions, ix...
• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can.
  And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance...
• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Saul, xviii...
• But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Balaustion's Adventure...
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- In a Balcony...
• God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Saul, vi...
• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so
  Life's business being just the terrible choice....