If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Ambition has no rest. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ambition What's money without happiness? Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton money Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton common-sensedifferencesnature The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton suitswantmen Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passionrevengemen Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton forgivingfeelingstwo As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passiontruthbelieve To live Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton menmeanart The classic literature is always modern. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton modernclassicliterature Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar? Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton debtsuccesstwo Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton readingexercisebook Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton tastewantmen A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wiseinspirationalfunny That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton viewsperfectmen Love has no thought of self! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sacrificeheartlife Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton one-daywould-beheaven A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wisementhinking Fate laughs at probabilities. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton fatehumorousfunny Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton nextmysterynames Our glories float between the earth and heaven Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton cloudswindheaven
