01c. 1839 ADScience 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1839 ADShame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the web, it is wholly imperfect.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
03c. 1839 ADSociety is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
04c. 1839 ADTake away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
05c. 1839 ADThat 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1839 ADThe conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
07c. 1839 ADThe lessons of adversity are not always salutary; sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
08c. 1839 ADThe prudent man may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
09c. 1839 ADThere are some cases in which human nature and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger than the world and its philosophy.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
10c. 1839 ADThere is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
11c. 1839 ADThere is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
12c. 1839 ADThere is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
13c. 1839 ADThere is nothing so agonising to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
14c. 1839 ADThere is scarcely a good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
15c. 1839 ADThere is sentiment in all women, and sentiment gives delicacy to thought, and tact to manner. But sentiment with men is generally acquired, an offspring of the intellectual quality, not, as with the other sex, of the moral.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
16c. 1839 ADWe are great philosophers to each other, but not to ourselves.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
17c. 1839 ADWe tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
18c. 1839 ADWhat is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
20c. 1839 ADWhatever our wanderings, our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and amidst the objects more immediately within our reach.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
21c. 1839 ADWhen the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
23c. 1839 AD"Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause of philosophy." This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
