Lord Byron Quiet Quotations

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.