English
Poet and
Playwright
(May 7,
1812 -
December 12,
1889)
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for?"
from Andrea del Sarto
"Faultless to a fault."
from The Ring and the Book
"God's in his heaven - All's right in the world."
from The Year's at the Spring
"The great mind knows the power of gentleness."
from Saviour of Society
"Grow old along with me the best is yet to be."
from Rabbi Ben Ezra
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
from A Death in the Desert
"Less is more."
from Andrea del Sarto
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
from Paracelsus
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
from Apollo and the Fates
"Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought."
from A Death in the Desert
"Truth never hurt the teller."
from Fifine at the Fair
"What I aspired to be / And was not, comforts me."
from Rabbi Ben Ezra
