The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with… — 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… — 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 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
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
