"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
- Charles Lamb
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me."
"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."
"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 buttere..."
"There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine."
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."
"It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an '..."
- Charles Lambert
"Rooms are never alone," said the Doctor with a laugh. "Only the people who live them can be alone."
"I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who o..."
"Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed."