Quote: It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Quote: A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]