Charles Lamb
You look wise, pray correct that error.Collection: Wise
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.Collection: Opinion
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.Collection: Heaven
I am in love with the green earth.Collection: Nature
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.Collection: Lying
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.Collection: Spring
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.Collection: Men
Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.Collection: Christian
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!Collection: Hands
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.Collection: Knowing
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.Collection: I Like You
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.Collection: Eye
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.Collection: Cheer
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.Collection: Observation
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.Collection: Dresses
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.Collection: Music
Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.Collection: Simplicity
By myself walking, To myself talking.Collection: Talking
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.Collection: Christian
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.Collection: Men
I have something more to do than to feel.Collection: Feels
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.Collection: Strong
Not if I know myself at all.Collection: Knowledge
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!Collection: Wall
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.Collection: Believe
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.Collection: Book
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!Collection: Dream
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.Collection: Men
Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.Collection: Friendship
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.Collection: War
Mother's love grows by giving.Collection: Family
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.Collection: Book
Books which are no books.Collection: Book
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.Collection: Glasses
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!Collection: Half
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.Collection: Mind
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.Collection: Grateful
Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!Collection: Dining Alone
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.Collection: Animal
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.Collection: Understanding
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.Collection: Dream
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.Collection: Years
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.Collection: Sweet
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.Collection: Brother
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.Collection: Home
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.Collection: Friends
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?Collection: Women
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.Collection: Men