I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When I consider how little of a rarity children arethat every street and blind alley swarms with themthat the poorest people commonly… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. — Charles Lamb Copy Share
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… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
