Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
