Maxioms by Charles Lamb
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other read more
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and read more
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an read more
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.