It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Love will always be the most powerful force.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton