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 Half as sober as a judge. Charles Lamb sober half judging The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. Charles Lamb wanderers fancy How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb departed taken gone You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! Charles Lamb age play cards Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works. Charles Lamb next good-work men I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. Charles Lamb bundles prejudice made Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed. Charles Lamb strong drinking men I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. Charles Lamb bears sweet children 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. Charles Lamb writing men 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. Charles Lamb modern-novel eye book Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. Charles Lamb deny pockets painful Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad! Charles Lamb mad gone 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. Charles Lamb good-man doe men Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species. Charles Lamb spurs kind might A laxity pervades the popular use of words. Charles Lamb use Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Charles Lamb wit nerves character 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. Charles Lamb friends going-away party We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations. Charles Lamb monkeys shy sight Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. Charles Lamb flower wish sea We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been. Charles Lamb lethe dream might
