I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full… — 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
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — 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
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better… — 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
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable… — 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