From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

Lord Byron is great only as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child.

In a room at the end of the garden to this house was a magnificent rocking-horse, which a friend had given my little boy; and Lord Byron, with a childish glee …

I never heard a single expression of fondness for him fall from the lips of any of those who knew him well.

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 t…

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of e…