We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.
Charles LambHe who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Charles LambCultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Charles LambFarewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Charles Lamb