Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is…

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, …

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failu…

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton