Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonPatience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonDebt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton