A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!