Quotes from Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

The sunshine of the mind.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.