A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

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."

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.