“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be,And will you no come back again?”

“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)”

“With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.”

“By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.”

“Certainly a man can be destroyed by the love of a woman, of this much I'm sure. But do you really believe a man can be saved by this love?”

“If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours”

“Start as you mean to go on.”