I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
Charles LambIn the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Charles LambYou may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
Charles LambThe laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
Charles Lamb