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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Age and Aging
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"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Age and Aging
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"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Deceit
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"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Divorce
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"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Dreams
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"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Eccentricity
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"It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Enemies
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"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Enthusiasm
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"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Enthusiasm
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"Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!"

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Fame
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"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Fate
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"There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Fate
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"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Flattery
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"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."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Friends and Friendship
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Genius
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"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Aid and Assistance
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"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Happiness
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"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."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Happiness
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"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."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Health
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"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Heart
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"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Inconsistency
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"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."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Lies and Lying
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"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Anger
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Love
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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Luck
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"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Men and Women
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"The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Mind
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"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Mind
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"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Patience
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"Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Pleasure
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"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Power
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"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."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Praise
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"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Proverbs
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"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Purpose
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"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Remorse
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"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Repentance
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Sorrow
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"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Success
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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Beauty
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