01c. 1839 ADA fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
02c. 1839 ADReading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
03c. 1839 ADNo reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
05c. 1839 ADDandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
06c. 1839 ADDebt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
07c. 1839 ADEmulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
08c. 1839 ADEvening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
09c. 1839 ADEvery man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
10c. 1839 ADEvery man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
11c. 1839 ADGenius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
12c. 1839 ADHe whom God has gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
14c. 1839 ADIt is not wisdom, but ignorance which teaches men presumption.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
15c. 1839 ADIt is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
16c. 1839 ADKnowledge has its penalties and pains as well as its prizes.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
17c. 1839 ADLove is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
18c. 1839 ADMusic, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
19c. 1839 ADNine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
20c. 1839 ADNothing is superficial to a deep observer. It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
22c. 1839 ADOnly when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
23c. 1839 ADOratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must be kept doing.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
24c. 1839 ADPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote ↗
