In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. Charles Lamb More Quotes by Charles Lamb More Quotes From Charles Lamb 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! Charles Lamb half may world There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. Charles Lamb valleys sweet water What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. Charles Lamb library apples soul 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. Charles Lamb quality glasses imagination Presents, I often say, endear absents. Charles Lamb Books which are no books. Charles Lamb book My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me. Charles Lamb taught book looks A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade. Charles Lamb black eye heaven (The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die. Charles Lamb grateful pigs might He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Charles Lamb ornaments society might He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Charles Lamb mixtures perfection matter You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own. Charles Lamb may way thinking All people have their blind side-their superstitions. Charles Lamb superstitions sides people How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye? Charles Lamb space eye men The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. Charles Lamb trumpets tease doe How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked! Charles Lamb I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters. Charles Lamb hate matter men Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. Charles Lamb apples opinion men Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. Charles Lamb teaching education teacher When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them. Charles Lamb pride children people
