HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whisperin... - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul"

"Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus"

"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"