Quote for the Day

For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast,

And the heart must pause to breathe,

And love itself have rest.

- Lord Byron

(1788 - 1824)

Extract from "So We'll Go No More a Roving."

British poet and leading figure of the Romantic movement, of whom Lady Caroline Lamb said that he was "mad, bad and dangerous to know."