“ In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. Charles Lamb
“ 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… Charles Lamb
“ Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes a… Charles Lamb
“ 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. Charles Lamb
“ I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. Charles Lamb
“ We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one. Charles Lamb
“ The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. Charles Lamb
“ The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Charles Lamb
