Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhat ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton