“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Miller's Daughter" (1832)

About Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 – 1892

English poet laureate of Queen Victoria, known for 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.

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

“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness.”

“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read / The Hunter's waking thoughts.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.”