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.
Source: Letter, 31 Aug. 1820, to poet Thomas Moorein Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 7, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand, 1973-81.
-- George Gordon Byron, (Jan 22 1788-1824), English poet; He wrote many romantic narrative poems, including Childe Harold's Pilgrimagae, 1812.