01c. 1839 ADPunctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
02c. 1839 ADA couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
03c. 1839 ADIt is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but themselves.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
04c. 1839 ADThere is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive,—the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
05c. 1839 ADThe main reason why silence is so efficacious an element of repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man's envy, and wounds no man's self-love.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
06c. 1839 ADThe mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
07c. 1839 ADThe man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
08c. 1839 ADOf all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
09c. 1839 ADThe best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
10c. 1839 ADHe who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
11c. 1839 ADEarnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be errors.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
12c. 1839 ADIt is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship: pass on."Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
15c. 1839 ADWriting, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter of thought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man made language and God the genius.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
18c. 1839 ADAnger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
21c. 1839 ADHope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
23c. 1839 ADThe true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
24c. 1839 ADThere is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, Trusts in God.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
