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“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Poor Relations.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,
That our worst foes cannot find us,
And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;
While each man, through thy height'ning steam,
Does like a smoking Etna seem.”

Charles Lamb

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and irony itself-- do these things go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?”

Charles Lamb

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”

Charles Lamb

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

Charles Lamb book Essays of Elia

The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Charles Lamb

Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).

“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 Lamb book Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry”

Charles Lamb

Lamb's letter to Charles Cowden Clarke, in summer, 1821. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1905). Letter 263.

“Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trust
That He, who lays this mortal frame in dust,
Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keeping
In Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping”

Charles Lamb

In his letter to Vincent Novello, November 8, 1830.

“Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.”

Charles Lamb

Letter to Coleridge (August 14, 1800)

“I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“Nursed amid her [London's] noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?”

Charles Lamb

Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)

“And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.”

Charles Lamb

Written at Cambridge; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

The Convalescent.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”

Charles Lamb

Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)

“For I hate, yet love thee, so,
That, whichever thing I show,
The plain truth will seem to be
A constrained hyperbole,
And the passion to proceed
More from a mistress than a weed.”

Charles Lamb

A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)