When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonCenturies roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThey have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAsk any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton