Charles Lamb Holiday Quotations

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

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.