“The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.” EyeMillionsHundredSevenColourVioletPenetrateVibrations Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.” EyeCertainImaginationMistakeObjectsJudgmentObservationCompareAcquireUnconsciousComparisonCustomsPrecisionArrivingCorrectingInvoluntary Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.” MindKindArtEyeMoralJudgingMoralityEthicsWitnessContemplationReportsWorks Of ArtSentimentsEthicalGrandeurBeholderVery True Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” FirstsLooksSaidEyeLastsAirAmbitionBlindFortuneProsperityPrudenceEagles Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.” MenEyeBirdBreathsBonesDebtGravesPoisonCrushSerpent Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.” MenChildrenEndsEyeLyingPeriodsPossessionSentencesHis EyesCarrieAnother ManHeirsGravestone Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!” HumansArtEyeGraceHuman NatureShameTheeDecentModestyVeilsStatuesThyselfWrapsMarbleOffence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.” ChildrenEyeLastsFilmDeathMotherFallLosesArmsAspectClayBosomsSpectre Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.” EyeBeautifulFacesSpeechHandsomeEloquenceBeautiful Eyes Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?” EyeStarsSweetDrinkMelancholyLiquid Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.” EyeHeavenPrayerAngelStonesRoofLaddersDungeonsShrines Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.” EyeYoungVoiceSleepYouthSweetBirdCommandCherishDewSlumberBoon Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.” KnowsEyeSleepDestinyFlowerSolitudeAmbitionBirdEarsFortuneVanityVainRetirementStatuesChamberReposeSereneBlooming Flower Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.” HeartLittlesEyeLinesWhiteFiveConditionsSubjectsHairMonthsTwentiesPunishmentWitnessSuspenseFixedSufficientBrownGreyConvictsBleachBrown Hair Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.” MenGivingShouldHeartEyePrayerSecretTearsHe ManWeakPocketsLoyalBoastDewParadesImposterPharisees Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.” WayEyeJoyLyingTimeWalksFeetLandYouthHis Eyes Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.” BookEndsEyeLoversLibraryWanderSettlingDefiniteBook Lover Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
