“Progress is / The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

— Robert Browning, Paracelsus, Part 5, 1835

About Robert Browning

1812 – 1889

English poet and playwright, known for his dramatic monologues.

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

“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.”

“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”