Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“The pen is mightier than the sword.”

“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”

“In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”

“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”

“There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.”

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.”

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”

“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

“There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.”

“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”

“Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”

“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”

“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

“O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”

“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”

“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.”

“Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.”

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”