Quotes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's books, and about them
The Coming Race on Elements of Geology: “Their conformation of skull has marked differences from that of any known races in the upper world, though I cannot help thinking it a development, in the course of countless ages of the Brachycephalic type of the Age of Stone in Lyell's 'Elements of Geology,' C. X., p. 113, as compared with the Dolichocephalic type of the beginning of…”
The Coming Race on On the Stratification of Language: “One of the most illustrious of recent philologists, Max Muller, in arguing for the analogy between the strata of language and the strata of the earth, lays down this absolute dogma: "No language can, by any possibility, be inflectional without having passed through the agglutinative and isolating stratum. No language can be agglutinative…”
The Coming Race on Essay on Classification: “…by an eloquent passage from the work of that eminent zoologist, Louis Agassiz, which I have only just met with, … "The relations … as the highest conception of paradise?"--'Essay on Classification,' sect. xvii. p. 97-99.”
The Coming Race on A Thousand and One Nights: “…presented pictures of a life unfamiliar to her experience and interesting to her imagination; pictures, indeed, of a life more resembling that which we lead every day above ground, coloured by our sorrows, sins, passions, and much to her what the tales of the Genii or the Arabian Nights are to us.”
Phineas Redux on Eugene Aram: “And Eugene Aram, when he murdered a man in Bulwer's novel, turned the matter over in his mind before he did it?"”
Two Years Before the Mast on Paul Clifford: “I accordingly overhauled the chests of the crew, but found nothing that suited me exactly, until one of the men said he had a book which "told all about a great highway-man," at the bottom of his chest, and producing it, I found, to my surprise and joy, that it was nothing else than Bulwer's Paul Clifford.”
Team of Rivals on The Last Days of Pompeii: “After finishing the new novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the author of The Last Days of Pompeii, he conceded that “the author is doubtless a gifted being—but he has prostituted God’s noblest gifts to the vilest purposes.””