Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonMy father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.
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 LyttonSay what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton