Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles LambMots clés life
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
Charles LambI love to lose myself in other men's minds
Charles LambThere is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.
Charles LambI love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me
Charles LambI 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 obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.
Charles LambMots clés food suffering taste justification cruelty pig flavor
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
Charles LambMots clés friend friendship brother
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles LambMots clés practice enjoy-life
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 buttered muffins.
Charles LambMots clés reading bookstore muffins
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'That Enough Is As Good As a Feast'
...The inventor of [this saying] did not believe it himself....Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muck — however we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.
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