“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“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.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton