Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Time is money.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

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.

There is no such thing as luck. Its a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

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.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.