"Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?"
- Charles Lamb
"Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart."
"Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!"
"The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, an..."
"We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it."
"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less."
"Books think for me."
"If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!"
"The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice."
"I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair."