Words, however, are things.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The things which must be must be for the best.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

That 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

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reap…

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton