Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton