Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.


The Last of the Barons (ed. 1906)


Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.