Charles Lamb Quotes
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. The beggar wears all colors fearing none. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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