Charles Lamb Quotes - Page 2

You look wise, pray correct that error.

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

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.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

I am in love with the green earth.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

The world meets nobody half way.

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.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.