“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.” MenMayScienceOceanAccountsFishesCarrieOne ManHerring Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.” WayLifeMayPlaySkillsCardsLive Life Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.” MayPersonalityIgnorantFancyEnlightenedDeficiency Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.” MayComedyHeroHumorousFaultsCreatorSatireCowardCharmingRidiculeKnightsResemblanceAuthorshipFrivolity Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.” IfsFirstsMayArtMatterAbleLawPoliticalImaginationSinPoorFictionMoralNovelObjectsAliensControversyScope Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.” MindMaySaidCertainPropertySympathyMetalsTemperatureMagnetism Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.” ThinkingMenMayErrorsVainEarnest Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.” KnowsMayMomentsSilenceExpressiveUnbroken Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.” PeopleThinkingMayAgePoliticalForceSocialVirtueOur LivesPrayingSightDevelopingInevitableProportionRegionsSunlightApocalypseSageI PrayCivilisationExcludedDestroyersSurpassing Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.” IfsMayCharacterNamesLostLost You Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.” HeartMayTearsAmbitionErrors Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it” InspirationalMayPersonsStatesDirectEnthusiasmRuinsPrudent Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!” IfsWayMaySoulDreamPathBrokenStrongerFingersBusyTiesGoodbyeSentimentsDiverseFarewellChordsPartingIntervalsHurrying Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.” IfsGivingMayLosesChanceGet BackChances Are Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!” MayRoseSweetnessDecemberHives Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.” MindMayWisdomPassionFireYouthSorrowTenIllProfitAffectionIntellectNineBridgesDisappointedManhoodSighWrecksIntervalsHardened Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.” MenHumansHeartMaySometimesCharacterJudging Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.” YearsHeartMayMadeSoulRememberSocialYouthTearsAmbitionLaborErrorsStealingEnjoymentVividFeverFreshness Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.” MaySaidFictionCaricatures Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.” MayAgeWrittenRocksPeriodsProseVersesShellsVolumeDelugeCouplets Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
