Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Found 15 thoughts of Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltatin of it. The difference is therefore in degree, not nature.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton