Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

- Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or …

- Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

- Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet

Man should be ever better than he seems.

- Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet