One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. — Lord Byron
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. — Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. — Lord Byron
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. — Lord Byron
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. — Lord Byron
I have a great mind to believe in christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
I have always believed that all things depended upon fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. — Lord Byron
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. — Lord Byron
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business — Lord Byron