“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”
Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
"A Toccata of Galuppi's", line 42.
Men and Women (1855)
Memorabilia, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.”
Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xiii.
The Statue and the Bust.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
A Soul's Tragedy (1846), Act ii.
“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”
The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
A Death in the Desert (1864)
“In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.”
Part III.
Pippa Passes (1841)
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Sometimes ascribed to Robert Browning, this is in fact a misquotation from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): "They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top".
Misattributed
“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”
La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.”
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 175.