Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that […]
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest.
Humor is the sunshine of the mind.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common – inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
