Lord George Gordon Byron

I was surfing, (the net, of course) when I am bored, as usual. I came across Lord George Gordon Byron's (1788-1824) work. Here are a couple of quotes from Byron which I like or I empathize with.

• The best prophet of the future is the past.


• I slept and dreamt that life was beauty;
  I woke and found that life was duty.


• I shall soon be six-and-twenty.Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?


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


• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one;
  and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.