Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!
I could never hate anyone I knew.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
I am in love with this green Earth.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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