I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.Charles Lamb: Last Essays of Elia
Games and Gambling
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia
Gifts and Giving
“Presents,” I often say, “endear absents.”Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia
Goodness
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.Charles Lamb
Illness
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!Charles Lamb: Last Essays of Elia
Smoking
For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do any thing but die. Charles Lamb: A Farewell to Tobacco
