She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and s... - George Gordon Byron

"A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound."

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

"We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."

"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"

"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."