It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
~ Robert Browning - [Sincerity]

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
~ Robert Browning - [Song and Singing]

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
~ Robert Browning - [Success]

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
~ Robert Browning - [Truth]

Truth never hurts the teller.
~ Robert Browning - [Truth]

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
~ Robert Browning - [Uncertainty]

Less is more.
~ Robert Browning - [Possessions]

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
~ Robert Browning - [Possibilities]

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
~ Robert Browning - [Self-control]

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
~ Robert Browning - [Joy]

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
~ Robert Browning - [Life and Living]

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
~ Robert Browning - [Love]

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
~ Robert Browning - [Lovers]

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
~ Robert Browning - [Missionaries]

My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning - [Optimism]

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
~ Robert Browning - [Fiction]

So free we seem, so fettered we are!
~ Robert Browning - [Freedom]

And gain is gain, however small.
~ Robert Browning - [Gain]

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
~ Robert Browning - [Goals]

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
~ Robert Browning - [Hope]