Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton quote: "Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth."

Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

--To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banq...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Time is money.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literatu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Never say "Fail" again.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publi...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

You speak As one who fed on poetry.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from t...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their gr...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Bo...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Laws die, Books never.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Ambition has no rest!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and v...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts i...
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be dr...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own sh...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it w...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which m...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feel...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy a...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Fate laughs at probabilities
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to wan...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Revolutions are not made with rosewater
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And swe...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Humor is the sunshine of the mind
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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