Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834)
English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
Books which are no books.
And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.
Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.
A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.