51 Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

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

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.