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

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Canto V

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.”

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

“Not once or twice in our rough island story, the path of duty was the way to glory.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

“The child has a deep longing for the parent to be there as a human being, not as a role.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”

“Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home.”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”