“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Kenelm Chillingly (1873), Book I, Ch. 8

About Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803 – 1873

English novelist and politician, author of "The Last Days of Pompeii".

“All doubt is cowardice—all trust is brave.”

“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.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”

“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you.”

“A Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls' education.”

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

“In the beginning was thought, and her name was Woman.”