Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Lord ByronI shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Lord ByronKnow ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
Lord ByronWhat an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
Lord Byron