Quotes by Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. >>

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of t >>

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. >>

Quotations about Wisdom

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. >>

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes] >>

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual >>

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.