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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur (1848–1849), Book XII

About Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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.”

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“The brave only know how to forgive.”