“Alas,” said Zee, “this predominance of the few over the many is the surest and most fatal sign of a race incorrigibly savage. See you not that the primary condition of mortal happiness consists in the extinction of that strife… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.” The mildness of all government among them, civil or domestic, may be signalised by their idiomatic expressions for such terms as illegal or forbidden—viz., “It is requested not… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“No path between the stranger’s home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady asserters of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they made war… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“But why should you wish to leave a state of society which you so politely allow to be more felicitous than your own?” “Oh,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not to be… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the rest of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which it sprang,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
