He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAnd, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThere is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonA fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton