Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."

"Come into the garden, Maud, for the black bat, night, has flown."

"The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

"Faint heart never won fair lady."

"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall; the vapors weep their substance to the ground."

"Knowledge without love is like a lamp without oil."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield—this is the mark of a noble spirit."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"Art for art's sake is the only justifiable purpose of creation."

"We are dying from a thousand small cuts of despair when we lose hope in tomorrow."

"Break, break, break, on thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me."

"Patience is the virtue of heroes."

"The flower blooms and does not ask why; so should we bloom without constant questioning."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"Great is the power of steady habit; it chains us down to earth."

"Fear is the enemy of progress; courage is the first requirement of change."

"The mind is wider than the sky; the mind is deeper than the sea."

"In my youth I thought power was everything; in my age I know it is nothing."

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

"All his large man-child nature, all his lazy-seeming strength, is neither lazy nor false."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

"The lust of gold is the most damning vice a man can harbor."

"Intellectual freedom is as precious as bread to the body."

"Let knowledge grow from more to more, but more of reverence in us dwell."

"The healthy mind neither despises the body nor overindulges it; moderation is the key."

"War is the statesman's game; but true peace comes only through justice."