--- title: "10 Littles Quotes By Charles Lamb" description: "10 Littles quotes by Charles Lamb. Plus more from Charles Lamb and more Littles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg" --- > [Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg) > [There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-little-soul-and-he-said-little/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/charles-lamb-1144_little-man_there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-litt_3066444.jpg) > [It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does-not-feel-his-devotions-a/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/charles-lamb-1144_altars_it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does_1726826.jpg) > [Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/science-has-succeeded-to-poetry-no-less-in-the-little-walks-of/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8c/charles-lamb-1144_accounts_science-has-succeeded-to-poetry-no-less_1223085.jpg) > [A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-man-may-do-very-well-with-a-very-little-knowledge-and-scarce-be/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c2/charles-lamb-1144_acquisition_a-man-may-do-very-well-with-a-very-littl_598426.jpg) > [Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/why-are-we-never-quite-at-ease-in-the-presence-of-a-schoolmaster/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/charles-lamb-1144_awkward_why-are-we-never-quite-at-ease-in-the-pr_3045117.jpg) > [Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/ceremony-is-an-invention-to-take-off-the-uneasy-feeling-which-we/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/433/charles-lamb-1144_attention_ceremony-is-an-invention-to-take-off-the_2712077.jpg) > [A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-man-can-never-have-too-much-time-to-himself-nor-too-little-to-do/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f5/charles-lamb-1144_believe_a-man-can-never-have-too-much-time-to-hi_2358723.jpg) > [So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/so-near-are-the-boundaries-of-panegyric-and-invective-that-a-worn-out/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/087/charles-lamb-1144_appetite_so-near-are-the-boundaries-of-panegyric_1680362.jpg) > [When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/when-i-consider-how-little-of-a-rarity-children-are-that-every-street/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/709/charles-lamb-1144_abundance_when-i-consider-how-little-of-a-rarity-c_1858427.jpg) ## Other authors on Littles ## More by Charles Lamb > [Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/reader-if-you-are-gifted-with-nerves-like-mine-aspire-to-any/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/in-the-indications-of-female-poverty-there-can-be-no-disguise-no/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/to-sigh-yet-feel-no-pain-to-weep-yet-scarce-know-why-to-sport-an-hour/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-love-to-lose-myself-in-other-men-s-minds-when-i-am-not-walking-i-am/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/while-childhood-and-while-dreams-producing-childhood-shall-be-left/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/man-while-he-loves-is-never-quite-depraved/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/summer-as-my-friend-coleridge-waggishly-writes-has-set-in-with-its/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/here-cometh-april-again-and-as-far-as-i-can-see-the-world-hath-more/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/a-presentation-copy-is-a-copy-of-a-book-whoch-does-not-sell-sent-you/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-counsel-thee-shut-not-thy-heart-nor-thy-library/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/nothing-to-me-is-more-distasteful-than-that-entire-complacency-and/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/my-theory-is-to-enjoy-life-but-the-practice-is-against-it/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/all-all-are-gone-the-old-familiar-faces/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/those-evening-bells-those-evening-bells-how-many-a-tale-their-music/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) > [Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/beholding-heaven-and-feeling-hell/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/littles/charles-lamb/#itemlist", "name": "10 Littles Quotes By Charles Lamb", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-lamb-1144_god_merit-god-knows-is-very-little-rewarded_1052553.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-little-soul-and-he-said-little/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/charles-lamb-1144_little-man_there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-litt_3066444.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/charles-lamb-1144_little-man_there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-litt_3066444.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/charles-lamb-1144_little-man_there-was-a-little-man-and-he-had-a-litt_3066444.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Lamb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does-not-feel-his-devotions-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/charles-lamb-1144_altars_it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does_1726826.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/charles-lamb-1144_altars_it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does_1726826.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/charles-lamb-1144_altars_it-is-well-if-the-good-man-himself-does_1726826.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams…” — Charles Lamb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. 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