Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAs the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonI would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonGive, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonNo reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonNine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton