“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.” BookActionWastePaperWeary Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?” KnowsMenDoeBookIdeasWholeSoundBrainKnowledgeKnowingEvery ManScholarKnowing Better Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Laws die, books never.” BookLawDiesReadingBooks And Reading Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” BookReadingPayFoolSuperiorsInferiors Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.” BookFactsHandsCertainWrittenDesignBearsRemainsLiftsReviewsDelicateTestimonyVeilsEarnestStatuesIsisAuthorshipForethought Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.” PeopleWorldWellsHeartDoeBookLightMightLastsReadingLostKnownNovelStudyFashionSonSorrowRoseHeavyPhysiciansPlagueDraught Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.” LittlesBookViewsKnownFourWindowVillageCountyCarriagesLuxuriousWelshHigh RoadPicturesqueSmall Villages Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.” StillsBookHouseSportsSpaceBrokenSceneSpringLondonPleasantBroadsSolitaryHere And TherePastimeEarly Spring Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.” MenNeedsArtBookWomenSinAnswersRecordsTearsAngelFollyMen Women Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Master books, but do not let them master you.” BookMastersPatienceAddictionAcknowledgeAddiction RecoveryInspirational Addiction RecoveryOvercoming Addiction Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.” BookFunnyScienceLiteraturePreference Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“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.” BookEndsEyeLoversLibraryWanderSettlingDefiniteBook Lover Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.” LongBookHomePastReadingHeritageReading Books Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.” BookPurposeReadingWalkingExerciseSauntering Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
