In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonInvention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonLove is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton