Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes & Sayings

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

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. — 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

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. — 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

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. — 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

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. — 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

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one's self. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method. — 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

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. — 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

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. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton