“A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.”

“I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.”

“So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.”

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

“All human history attestsThat happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! -Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99”

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”

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