Excerpt from The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Vol. 1 of 2
It was those easy lessons, far more than the harsher rudiments learned subsequently in schools, that taught me to admire and to imitate; and in them I recognize the germ of the flowers, however perishable they be, that I now bind up and lay upon a shrine hallowed by a thousand memories of unspeakable affection. Happy, while I borrowed from your taste, could I have found it not more difficult to imitate your virtues, your spirit of active and extended benevolence, your cheerful piety, your considerate justice, your kindly charity, - and all the qualities that brighten a nature more free from the thought of self, than any it has been my lot to meet with. Never more than at this moment did I wish that my writings were possessed of a merit which might outlive my time, so that at least these Hues might remain a record of the excellence of the mother, and the gratitude of the son.
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