Charles Lamb

“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

“Who first invented work, and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing spirit down?”

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“What is reading, but silent conversation.”

“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.”

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“My motto is, 'Contented with little, yet wishing for more'.”

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears...”

“I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

“The beggar is the only free man in the universe.”

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.”

“A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit.”

“I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets.”