The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhat, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton