Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
