The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
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
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Charles Lamb
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Charles Lamb
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Charles Lamb