Charles Lamb Mind Quotations

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.