Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIrony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonNothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonOnly by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton