51 Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

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.