Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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.
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.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.