Charles Lamb Quotes
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. I could never hate anyone I knew. I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. It is good to love the unknown. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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