Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ”

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ”

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. ”