Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. – Charles Lamb
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. – Charles Lamb
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive – you are leaking. – Charles Lamb
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. – Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. – Charles Lamb
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is. – Charles Lamb
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. – Charles Lamb
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, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. – Charles Lamb
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. – Charles Lamb
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. – Charles Lamb
