We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonOnly by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonThat man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton