Edward R. Bulwer-Lytton

Ambition has no rest.

Life would be tolerably agreeable if it were not for its amusements.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Nothing can constitute good breeding which has not good nature for its foundation.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.