Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could… — 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 Image
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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 Image
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.” — 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 earth. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
