"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas
of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough
to consider it when it becomes today."
"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men,
who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."
"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."
"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."
"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help
is better than a pound of preaching."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger
concealed often hardens into revenge."
"Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but
the striving to win the prize."
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier
than the sword."
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account
is the gift of few."
"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes
no victories without it."
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly
grows unconsciously into genius."
"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are
not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
"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."
"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous
in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness
unto another."
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than
your virtues."
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature,
but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
"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."
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual
can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can
excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending
the error."
"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in
itself has the aspect of strength."
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never
own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist
on principle at the onset."
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than
dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
"The easiest person to deceive is one's self."
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the
enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
"The true spirit of conversation consists in building
on another man's observation, not overturning it."
"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."
"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it."
Written by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
