Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee.

The 'good old times' – all times when old are good.

Always laugh when you can, it is a cheap medicine.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

The great art of life is to play for much and to lose little.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

The great object of life is sensation – to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

There are four things that are too hard for me, yea, five that I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

The ocean hath no bounds, but in its shore.

I am not a man of many words, but I can be a man of many deeds.