To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton truthfirststhinking We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton strivedegreesachievement The food of hope is meditative action. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton action When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton humblewiseadvice The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passionambitiontwo Art 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 curvesbeautyart I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton morningmenchildren Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton illdonebusiness Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton waitingcharactertwo The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton artistrealimagination The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sneezingvoicegiving Nothing ages like laziness. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton lazinessage What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton natural-talentpurposewant Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton saidmayfiction The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton luckymenneeds There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton namesdoepatience They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton shellsrocksage Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton oceanmenscience Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton numbersmenenemy There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passionscienceart
