Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Quotes

• “Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and tru...”
• “Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man sho...”
• “If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth hap...”
• “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 c...”
• “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himsel...”
• “In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”
• “We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
• “He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.”
• “In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.”
• “Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
• “Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
• “We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
• “Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
• “Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.”
• “A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.”
• “A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
• “Talent does what it can genius does what it must.”
• “Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
• “What is human is immortal!”
• “The sunshine of the mind.”