Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. Charles Lamb More Quotes by Charles Lamb More Quotes From Charles Lamb It is good to love the unknown. Charles Lamb love Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb success giving life Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Charles Lamb irony veins blessed 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. Charles Lamb pistols law ears I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. Charles Lamb religious father children Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb curiosity disappointment feelings 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. Charles Lamb giving-up prayer book New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb holiday new-year birthday Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Charles Lamb philanthropy purses charity What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. Charles Lamb blank health meals The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his. Charles Lamb time men people Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. Charles Lamb time science thinking I am in love with the green earth. Charles Lamb garden nature earth I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. Charles Lamb aging grows age There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour. Charles Lamb jealous reading book Not if I know myself at all. Charles Lamb ifs knows knowledge Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb strength men children Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. Charles Lamb rural-life sound doors 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! Charles Lamb wall tired air It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this. Charles Lamb eye kings thinking
