Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
echo
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
sincerity truth victories
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
enthusiast ruins
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
anger towards
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
correction power reform transfer
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
love
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
fool man wisdom
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
becomes body consider drain fresh keeps mind time
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
dreams shall thy
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
aspect calmness itself power strength
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
chance fancy good name ready sure time
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.
art beautiful beauty life moves
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
finds looking nature ocean track truth
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
beneath entirely great men mightier pen rule
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.