There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThere is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonTo find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEvery man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIf there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonArt employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton