Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common—inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
12OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
11OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
10OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
09OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
08OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
07OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth—suns are throwing off their nebulae—nebulae are hardening into worlds. The Almighty proves His existence by creating.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
06OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton