In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton eye prayer heart It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mind may sympathy There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton fancy luck names Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton errors men thinking Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wife husband firsts Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton punishment eye heart In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton style literature law Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton study men way I did not fall into love - I rose into love. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton falling-in-love love fall To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ceremony appreciation compliment O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton pride humility men Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton vanity pain suffering Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton valor careers stars Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton greatness heart men The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton hope night past Expression is the mystery of beauty. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mystery expression beauty My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton twenties adventure father It is a glorious fever, desire to know. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton fever desire knowledge Good humor is the sunshine of the mind. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton disposition sunshine mind A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton rewards heart men