Robert Browning

“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.”

“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”

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

“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”

“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”

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