Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhen a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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 LyttonFortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton