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Purity
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My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Rivers
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Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Brook
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Sadness
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Sin
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Smile
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Success & Failure
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Thought
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Time
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A day may sink or save a realm.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Trust
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Truth
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wisdom
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall lines 143-144
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Worry
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Books by and about Alfred Lord Tennyson