“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

— Robert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra", stanza 27

About Robert Browning

1812 – 1889

English poet and playwright, known for his dramatic monologues.

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”

“Good, to forgive; best to forget.”

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”