Quotes from lamb charles ii

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

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.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

For I hate, yet love thee, so, That, whichever thing I show, The plain truth will seem to be A constrained hyperbole, And the passion to proceed More from a mistress than a weed.

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

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.

I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

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.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Books think for me.