“I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, and sparkle out among the fern, to bicker down a valley.”

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.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”

“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”

“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”