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• Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Golden Yea...
• With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Princess, Prologue, Line 141...
• And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lxiv, Stanza 3...
• Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 1...
• Oh good gray head which all men knew!
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 4...
• Authority forgets a dying king. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyso
• Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liii, Stanza 4...
• Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good.
  Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood....
• The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Passing of Arthu...