Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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.

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.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.