I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty. – 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
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
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle