Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton innocence substitutes poor Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton safety spiritual numbers Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton money character men The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton silence giving men In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton health half brain There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton thoughtful kindness manners The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wife people moving The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton eye imagination mistake The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton affection immortality generations Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton imperfect shame break Genius has no brother. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton genius brother Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wise philosophy life Bright and illustrious illusions! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton illusion Despair makes victims sometimes victors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton desperation despair sometimes Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton education men father A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ignorance men thinking The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton weed heart men Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton gentleman doe thinking A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton proportion genius men The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton surprise fashion secret
