Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Charles Lamb

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles Lamb

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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 man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Charles Lamb

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb