Edward g. bulwer lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

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

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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.

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

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