Charles Lamb

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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

Man is a gaming animal.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

Books think for me.