Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"We cannot think or act, but the soul of some man, who has lived before, points the way. The dead never die."

"Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn."

"My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory …"

"The good man does good merely by living."

"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 to-day."

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

"There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace."

"He who has loved often has loved never."