A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our… — 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 Image
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 Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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 Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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 Image
