Charles Lamb

"Presents, I often say, endear absents."

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

"If peradventure, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of thy life—thy shining youth—in the irksome confinement of an office; to have thy prison days prolonged through middle age down …"

"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."

"I came home for ever!"

"From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me."

"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."

"A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."