Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.