Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton