A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning

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

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

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

Faultless to a fault.
Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning

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

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


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

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning

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

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning

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.
Robert Browning

Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning

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