A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonVanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonSociety is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton