Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

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

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

The light that lies In woman's eyes.