Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

—Thomas Edison

People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

—Josh Lanyon in The Dark Tide

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

—Joseph Brodsky

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

—A. J. Liebling

Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden