Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Love is the only gold.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'