Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

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

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