Quotes from lamb charles iv

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?