The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonHe who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonMusic, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonNothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton