“I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.” MenChildrenMorningYouthHe ManEvery MorningVirginsContagiousGladnessFreshnessHappy Children Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.” PassionEnergyMistakeYouthStrongerExcitedViolentIntenseStrongestDurability Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.” FateFailingYouthFailureReservesManhoodNo FailureLexicon Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.” IfsFeelsChildrenLittlesAgeYoungTurnsLaughingTreeMiddleYouthStrangeSonSpringPlantDelightDawnGrassAutumnGrandchildrenInfantMiddle AgedFondnessCrutchesSaddened 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
“In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.” IfsYearsHeartStillsFeelingsDifficultSidesPoorRoomsStreetsDogFieldsYouthSolitudeSpringTwentiesCornersFaithfulGet AwayLocksSavagesWoundedBrutesHerdsStags Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.” YouthSurprise Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!” YouthAnd LoveMidnight 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
“Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.” LooksDangerYouthDebtLook UpFuryOwing A Debt Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.” MindMayWisdomPassionFireYouthSorrowTenIllProfitAffectionIntellectNineBridgesDisappointedManhoodSighWrecksIntervalsHardened Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.” YearsHeartMayMadeSoulRememberSocialYouthTearsAmbitionLaborErrorsStealingEnjoymentVividFeverFreshness Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
