Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfathomable mysteries.

Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance.

To the man who aspires to know, no man who has been the meanest student of knowledge should be unknown.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Little minds give importance to the man who gives importance to nothing.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

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

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".

Ambition has no risk.

Take away the sword—
States can be saved without it!

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

Love hath no need of words.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.