The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — 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
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — 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
