Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonOf all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton