390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

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.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.