Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
1803 – 1873
English novelist and politician, author of "The Last Days of Pompeii".
“Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.”
“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.”
“There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself.”
“There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.”
“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.”
“When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.”
“When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!”
“The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.”
“In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.”
“Little minds give importance to the man who gives importance to nothing.”
