People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton