Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
abundance alley bargains blest blind cannot cause children commonly consider defeat few fond hopes life marriages people poorest possibly pride rarity street taking turn vicious
When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
lose love men
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
trying despair scottish
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
men garden prison
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
sweet stars prayer
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.
silence gone silent
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
mom mother giving
Mother's love grows by giving.
moving home beer
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
book demand binding
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
strength children men
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
nature earth green
I am in love with the green earth.
knowledge ifs knows
Not if I know myself at all.