If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

"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 love not man the less, but Nature more"

"They never fail who die in a great cause."