Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonCharacter is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton