Quotes from Edward Bulwer Lytton

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned.

It was a dark and stormy night; 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 struggled against the darkness.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says: "Leave no stone unturned.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.