Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonIt is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonThere is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonNo life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonWe 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 Lytton