We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonImitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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