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

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

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

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you.

- 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