63 Quotes by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of a busy life—serene, placid, and mild,-with the impress of the great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

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

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.