Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEarnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton