Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”

“To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned.”

“The pen is mightier than the sword!”

“And that date, too, is far off?''Far off; when it comes, think your end in this world is at hand!''How and what is the end? Look east, west, south and north.''In the north, where you never yet trod...”

“You will remember that Albertus Magnus, after describing minutely the process by which spirits may be invoked and commanded, adds emphatically that the process will instruct and avail only to the f...”

“He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.”

“And the bubbles of light again rose and fell, and in their disordered, irregular, turbulent maze, mingled with the wan moonlight. And now from these globules themselves as from the shell of an egg,...”

“My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.”

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

“Laws die books never.”

“Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.”

“Genius does what it must talent does what it can.”

“There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.”

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

“Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.”

“In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”

“The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened...”

“When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”

“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”

“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.”