Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.