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“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”

Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.

“So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.”

Source: Poetry Quotes, Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

“He is dead already who doth not feel
Life is worth living still.”

Source: Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here;”

Source: Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”

Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)

“O'er the wires the electric message came,
"He is no better; he is much the same."”

On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)

An 1871 poem on the illness of the Prince of Wales, although there is some doubt that Austin actually wrote this part. That classic compendium "The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse" (2d ed. 1930; Capricorn paperback 1962) includes a dozen quotations from Austin but attributes this particular couplet (p. 17) to a "university poet unknown." It also provides a metrically more accurate first line, "Across the wires the gloomy message came," plus "not" for "no" in the second line.
On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)

“No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.”

Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)

“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

Prose Papers on Poetry Macmillan & Co 1910.
Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”

Source: As quoted in Growing with the Seasons (2008) by Frank & Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115., and one or two other gardening books, as well as on various internet gardening sites and lists of quotations. However, it is sometimes attributed to Voltaire, and about one-third of the time it is quoted without attribution (at times even without quotation marks). It is not to be found in Austin's The Garden That I Love or any of its five sequels.

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right,
Wail of the weak against the strong,
Or tyranny to fight;”

Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

“Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.”

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 22.

“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”

Source: "Unseasonable Snows", line 13; p. 38, Lyrical Poems (1891)

“So, timely you came, and well you chose,
You came when most needed, my winter rose.
From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press
Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

Source: "My Winter Rose", stanza VII; p. 23., Lyrical Poems (1891)

“In vain would science scan and trace
Firmly her aspect. All the while,
There gleams upon her far-off face
A vague unfathomable smile.”

Source: "Nature and the Book", Stanza XX; p. 69, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

“If Nature built by rule and square,
Than man what wiser would she be?
What wins us is her careless care,
And sweet unpunctuality.”

Source: "Nature and the Book", stanza XVII; p. 68, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

“Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because,
Unto my seeming, there doth lurk
A lawlessness about her laws,
More mood than purpose in her work.”

Source: "Nature and the Book", stanza XV; p. 67, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

“My virgin sense of sound was steeped
In the music of young streams;
And roses through the casement peeped,
And scented all my dreams.”

"Prelude", stanza XI; p. ix., At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

“[…] there is no love,
That merits such high christening, but is built
Firm upon some foundation out of sight;
God, country, virtue, something not ourself,
To which ourself is nothing, save the proof
Of its invisible sureness.”

Source: Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 262, Savonarola (1881)

“Goodnight! Now dwindle wan and low
The embers of the afterglow,
And slowly over leaf and lawn
Is twilight's dewy curtain drawn.”

Source: "Goodnight!", in Lamia's Winter-Quarters (London: Macmillan and Co., 1898), p. 163.

“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”

Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. vi; p. 285.