We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Charles LambNothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Charles LambFarewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Charles LambThink what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Charles LambJudge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.
Charles Lamb