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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1ST BARON LYTTON
English novelist and politician
(1803 - 1873)
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
      - [Punctuality]

Rank is a great beautifier.
      - [Rank]

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
      - [Wedlock]

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
      - [Reading]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
      - [Health]

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 his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
      - [Character]

Remember Talleyrand's advice, "If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter-writing.
      - [Doubt]

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
      - [Remorse]

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble; but Christ's religion, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
      - [Revenge]

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.
      - [Ambition]

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 failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
      - [Self-confidence]

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
      - [Shame]

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
      - [Proverbs]

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
      - [Society]

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
      - [Genius]

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
      - [Tears]

Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
      - [Faith]

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.
      - [Study]

Take away the sword;
  States can be saved without it; bring the pen.
      - [Pen]

Tell me not of the pain of falsehood to the slandered! There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
      - [Vanity]

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
      - [Eyes]

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
      - [Gentlemen]

The affections are immortal! they are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
      - [Affection]

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
      - [Teaching]

The bliss that can he told is but half-bliss.
      - [Bliss]


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