Lord Byron

"The power of beauty I remember yet, which late I felt, which yet I feel."

"To write is to discover that you are not alone."

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."

"How little do we know that which we are!"

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself being lynched."

"The great object of life is sensation - and the greatest intensities of sensation are pain and pleasure."

"I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!"

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age a regret."

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore; there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar."

"I have a great horror of the word 'sentimental', not because I feel less than other people do, but because I feel more."

"The great object is to mark the progress of the human mind through the ages."

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? To view each loved one blotted from life's page."

"All I require is the freedom to think and to speak and to act."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"I love all waste and solitary places; where we taste the pleasure of believing what we believe."

"The great object of life is sensation; to feel that we exist."

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit upon more than treachery."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"There are few things that cloud the memory more than the want of happiness."

"I am not merry; but I love to live."

"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist in the grand and beautiful."

"Patience is power; that is the only law."

"If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears."

"I am my own destroyer; the faults lies within myself."

"The great lesson is to be content with nothing, or nearly so."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody of importance."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless wood, a rapture on the lonely shore."