“ If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. George Byron
“ Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. George Byron
“ Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. George Byron
“ What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. George Byron
“ There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. George Byron
“ I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? George Byron
