Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThere is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonOf all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton