Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue