Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonHe who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton