560 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Silence, beautiful voice.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

Faith lives in honest doubt.