Charles Lamb ( 10 of 16 )
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an read more
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other read more
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and read more
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.