Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton