Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. - (Browning, Robert - Age and Aging)

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. - (Browning, Robert - Age and Aging)

Grow old with me the best is yet to come. - (Browning, Robert - Age and Aging)

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. - (Browning, Robert - Ambition)

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do! - (Browning, Robert - Ambition)

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. - (Browning, Robert - Ambition)

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? - (Browning, Robert - Ambition)

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

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! - (Browning, Robert - Catholicism)

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, - (Browning, Robert - Courage)

Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. - (Browning, Robert - Curiosity)

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. - (Browning, Robert - Defeat)

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. - (Browning, Robert - Desire)

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man's! - (Browning, Robert - Education)

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! - (Browning, Robert - Effort)