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
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty. – George Byron
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
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