More Quotes by Lord 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.
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
